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"content": "\u003cp>Some of the boldest reform experiments underway in the wake of the national reckoning on police violence and systemic racism following \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/sections/trial-over-killing-of-george-floyd/\">George Floyd’s murder\u003c/a> are pilot projects \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2020/10/19/924146486/removing-cops-from-behavioral-crisis-calls-we-need-to-change-the-model\">in Denver, San Francisco\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kgw.com/article/news/local/portland-street-response-team-mental-health-crises/283-ed2211d0-e73c-4d6b-82ec-91e94ad8c8ea\">Portland, Oregon\u003c/a>, and elsewhere. They’re confronting hard questions about what role, if any, police should play in responding to calls for persons in nonviolent mental health, drug, alcohol or homeless crises.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Rebecca Kaplan, Oakland Vice Mayor and Councilmember\"]‘Not only mental health, but the whole range of lower-level issues that shouldn’t require a gun to be part of the response.’[/pullquote]This fall, Oakland aims to join those cities when it launches a pilot project to funnel some nonviolent, noncriminal calls to new, mobile teams of civilians.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Not only mental health, but the whole range of lower-level issues that shouldn’t require a gun to be part of the response,” says Rebecca Kaplan, the city’s vice mayor who has championed the nascent program called Mobile Assistance Community Responders of Oakland, or MACRO.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kaplan says sending police to mental health and behavioral calls they are not trained to handle is a grave mistake cities keep repeating. “Those cases often go very badly and sometimes horrifically,” she says. “We have seen horrific deaths, killings by police throughout the nation when they’ve been called for matters that deal with mental health or homelessness or public intoxication — or any of these matters that are not a violent crime — and should be better handled by a non-police response.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.treatmentadvocacycenter.org/storage/documents/overlooked-in-the-undercounted.pdf\">One study estimates\u003c/a> people with an untreated mental illness are 16 times more likely to be killed during an encounter with police than other civilians.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>MACRO is part of \u003ca href=\"https://www.oaklandca.gov/topics/reimagining-public-safety\">a wider effort by the Oakland City Council and Mayor Libby Schaaf\u003c/a> to rethink how law enforcement operates in a city where the police department has been \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2018/08/08/636319870/in-oakland-more-data-hasnt-meant-less-racial-disparity-during-police-stops\">under federal oversight now\u003c/a> for nearly two decades.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11874273\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11874273\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/rebecca-kaplan_slide-4afb02f36a43086cf9e5cf02d59a3bf756ee15d8-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/rebecca-kaplan_slide-4afb02f36a43086cf9e5cf02d59a3bf756ee15d8-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/rebecca-kaplan_slide-4afb02f36a43086cf9e5cf02d59a3bf756ee15d8-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/rebecca-kaplan_slide-4afb02f36a43086cf9e5cf02d59a3bf756ee15d8-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/rebecca-kaplan_slide-4afb02f36a43086cf9e5cf02d59a3bf756ee15d8-1536x1023.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/rebecca-kaplan_slide-4afb02f36a43086cf9e5cf02d59a3bf756ee15d8-1920x1279.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/rebecca-kaplan_slide-4afb02f36a43086cf9e5cf02d59a3bf756ee15d8.jpg 1999w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Oakland City Vice Mayor and Councilmember Rebecca Kaplan says sending police to mental health and behavioral calls they aren’t trained for is a mistake cities keep repeating. \u003ccite>(Philip Pacheco/AFP via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch3>Oakland’s Unique Strategy\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>The pilot program will operate under the fire department, but the teams will be made up of civilians, not sworn firefighters. And in hiring, the program will place a greater emphasis on lived experience over formal education. It’s a unique Oakland take among urban police reform efforts underway. Most cities’ pilot street teams are sending out a trained and licensed clinical social worker or psychologist.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think the community was crystal clear and has continued to be crystal clear that they do not want a licensed social worker as part of the street team,” says Oakland Deputy Fire Chief Melinda Drayton.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And so Drayton, who’s spearheading the department’s efforts on MACRO, says the fire department aims to deliver what the community wants.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The civilian teams will deescalate problems, check vitals and potentially get a person in crisis off the streets, she says, by connecting him or her to services anywhere in the city \u003cem>except\u003c/em> a jail, a psychiatric ward or a hospital.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’ll be able to take them to city, private nonprofit community-based services, health care clinics. Maybe to their dad’s house,” Drayton says. “As simple as that. ‘Where are you going to feel safe for the night?'”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The plan is for a civilian emergency medical technician to be paired with someone, for example, with first-hand knowledge of the mental health, criminal justice, homeless or drug treatment systems.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Sometimes people just need to be heard. Sometimes people just need a warm blanket. Sometimes people just need to sober up, you know?,” says Cat Brooks, co-founder of Oakland’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.antipoliceterrorproject.org/\">Anti Police-Terror Project\u003c/a>, who has worked on this issue for years. “I mean, sometimes, [people] need to be able to scream. Like, why is that such a big deal? Why does that scare us so much? Look at the world that we live in. I want to scream all the damn time!”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11874323\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11874323\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS48840_024_Alameda_MarioGonzalezPressConf_04272021-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS48840_024_Alameda_MarioGonzalezPressConf_04272021-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS48840_024_Alameda_MarioGonzalezPressConf_04272021-qut-1020x679.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS48840_024_Alameda_MarioGonzalezPressConf_04272021-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS48840_024_Alameda_MarioGonzalezPressConf_04272021-qut-1536x1022.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS48840_024_Alameda_MarioGonzalezPressConf_04272021-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Anti-Police Terror Project Co-founder, Cat Brooks, speaks during a news conference outside of the Alameda Police Department on April 27, 2021. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Brooks, a key advocate for MACRO, believes the best people to help are those with street knowledge of the systems that have failed them, what she calls “the medical-industrial complex.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“And that complex — doctors, nurses, psychologists, social workers — stereotypes Black, brown and indigenous bodies. Criminalizes Black, brown and indigenous bodies just as much as law enforcement,” she says. “And so these models have to be more about the ideology and practice with which we respond.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Concerns About the Pilot\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Still, some worry emphasizing ideology over formal training goes against the science and art of mental health care and could undermine the program’s effectiveness.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Social workers have a lot to offer as we re-imagine public safety, policing and seek to strengthen our crisis response capacity,” says Sarah Butts, director of public policy for the National Association of Social Workers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She says the group fully supports communities creating whatever model works best for them. And Butts agrees that peer counselors with life experience in these systems can and are often an important part of any front-line response.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But she says extensive education and training do matter when addressing the often complex mix facing someone in a mental health or substance use crisis.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Social workers will have a skill set — problem-solving, relationship building, de-escalation — that really lends itself to this to this type of community problem solving,” Butts says. She notes nonpolice responders must accurately assess the situation quickly under often stressful conditions. “And then decide what is the most effective response.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Whatever model cities use, it’s important they collect and share data on what’s working and what’s not “so that we can learn from our experience and improve these systems,” Butts says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2020/10/19/924146486/removing-cops-from-behavioral-crisis-calls-we-need-to-change-the-model\">As NPR has reported\u003c/a>, across the bay in San Francisco, the city’s new police-free Street Crisis Response Teams put a fire department paramedic with a trained clinical social worker and a peer counselor to help respond to some crisis calls for people who are homeless, intoxicated, having a mental health challenge, or all of the above.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The four teams now deployed in San Francisco’s pilot project are, so far, able to respond to only a small number of the overall behavioral crisis calls in that city. But it wants to scale up the program this summer when San Francisco Mayor London Breed hopes to add a companion program of unarmed “wellness” teams to work with the street teams to handle even lower-level calls. It’s part of the mayor’s wider \u003ca href=\"https://sfmayor.org/article/mayor-london-breed-announces-roadmap-new-police-reforms\">pledge to change policing\u003c/a> in the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003cstrong>Flashpoints with Police \u003c/strong>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>With startling repetition non-criminal crisis calls to police — often by a friend or loved one — continue to be flashpoints for violence and death.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_11870691 hero='https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/RS48713_026_Alameda_MarioGonzalezVigil_04212021-qut-1020x679.jpg']Examples include \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2020/11/05/931643057/philadelphia-officials-promise-changes-after-walter-wallace-jr-shooting\">Walter Wallace in Philadelphia\u003c/a>, Daniel \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2020/09/03/909086022/daniel-prudes-death-ruled-a-homicide-he-was-restrained-by-police\">Prude in Rochester\u003c/a> and in late April, Oakland resident \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2021/04/29/991844355/lawyer-says-police-didnt-need-to-arrest-man-who-died-after-being-pinned-to-groun\">Mario Gonzalez, who died in Alameda Police custody\u003c/a>. The 26-year-old was in a small park in Alameda when 911 callers expressed concerned Gonzalez was mumbling to himself and maybe high or drunk.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He was talking to himself and what else was he doing?” the 911 dispatcher asks one caller in tapes released by Alameda police.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He’s just hanging out,” the caller says, “I mean, he seems like he’s tweaking. But he’s not doing anything wrong. He’s just scaring my wife.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The two 911 calls make clear there’s no violence, imminent threat or any discernible criminal activity, save a couple bottles of booze with the security tags still attached, indicating they were probably stolen.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Alameda police soon arrive. \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11871345/city-of-alameda-releases-police-body-cam-footage-of-mario-gonzalez-death\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Body cam footage\u003c/a> shows officers question Gonzalez about what he’s doing in the park, and ask for his ID. Gonzalez, who is calm but fidgety, mumbles several largely incoherent responses and does not appear to be fully lucid.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_11871345 hero='https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/RS48857_044_Alameda_MarioGonzalezPressConf_04272021-qut-1020x679.jpg']Without telling him he is under arrest, each officer grabs one of Gonzalez’s arms and proceeds to try to put his hands behind his back. When he bends over and resists being handcuffed, one officer says, “Please stop resisting us, OK? Don’t fight us.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gonzalez continues to resist, and the two officers take him to the wood chip-covered ground, pinning him on his stomach, with at least one officer pressing an elbow and knee into his back and shoulder. They eventually handcuff him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The two officers continue pinning Gonzalez to the ground for a total of roughly five minutes, with at least one of them pressing his elbow and knee into his back.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As Gonzalez becomes motionless, the officers shout his first name, check for a pulse, roll him fully over, and begin administering CPR, with Gonzalez’s hands still restrained behind his back. About a minute later, they remove his handcuffs and continue performing CPR, repeatedly shouting for him to wake up.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label=\"related coverage\" tag=\"mario-gonzalez\"]Gonzalez leaves behind a grieving family including a 4-year-old son. He was also the main caretaker of his 22-year-old autistic brother, his family has said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Alameda Police Department officers involved are on paid leave while multiple agencies investigate. An autopsy is pending.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Timothy T. Williams Jr., a police tactics expert, says police need clearer guidelines around “positional asphyxia” — or detaining someone in a way that compresses their airways and reduces the ability to breathe normally.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Alameda Police Department’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.alamedaca.gov/files/assets/public/departments/alameda/police/alameda-police-department-policy-manual-11022020.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">policy manual\u003c/a> states that a suspect “shall not be placed on his/her stomach for an extended period, as this could reduce the person’s ability to breathe.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Williams says that guideline isn’t specific or directed enough. “Once he or she is handcuffed, they are to be immediately removed from the prone position, put on their side, and, if possible, sat up.” Otherwise, he says, “You leave everything to subjective interpretation: What may be short to you may be long to me.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There was no reason whatsoever to go hands-on with Mario,” says civil rights lawyer Julia Sherwin, who represents his family. She has formally asked the U.S. Department of Justice to open a civil rights investigation into the Alameda Police Department.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sherwin says Gonzalez was unarmed, holding only a comb. “He’s been combing his hair and he’s been loitering there for half an hour. Why this required a law enforcement response is beyond me.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s instances like this that have led Oakland to its experiment.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Much Work Remains\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>In Oakland, Mayor Libby Schaaf originally pushed to put MACRO under an area nonprofit. The city council rejected that idea. Despite ongoing political tussles with the council, Schaaf “wholeheartedly supports this and it is part of her budget proposal,” says her communications director Justin Berton. “We hope it will be up and running as soon as humanly possible.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Big details in implementing the plan remain. The fire agency, already stretched thin, now has to hire, train and equip new teams of civilians.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Oakland Police Department, for their part, are largely staying quiet on the program for now and letting city hall, the Oakland City Council and fire department work it out.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And police will still, at first, handle all 5150 calls — that’s the code that allows police to involuntarily confine someone exhibiting behavior that’s “the result of a mental disorder,” and who appears to be endangering him or herself or others.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A big unanswered question is what percentage of the nearly quarter-million annual 911 police calls in Oakland will eventually be transferred to the new unarmed, police-free teams. One city councilwoman says the goal is 20% of nonviolent 911 calls within three years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Deputy Fire Chief Drayton says, at first, the percentage will be far smaller. The aim is to grow over time but start small: one team working a swing shift five days a week going after the relatively low-hanging fruit of noise disturbances, welfare checks, loitering and such.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And the city’s 911 dispatchers will very likely need additional training. The program will put enormous pressure on those dispatchers who will, at first anyway, have to decide which calls to funnel to MACRO or to police for a more traditional response.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Cat Brooks, co-founder of the Anti Police-Terror Project\"]‘Broad swaths of Black and brown people will not call the police ever for any reason…Why? Because our lived experience is police do not make it better when they show up.’[/pullquote]\u003cbr>\nBut activist Cat Brooks of the Anti Police-Terror Project says using the traditional 911 system at all for these new teams is a big mistake. She has helped set up a separate non-police, non-city run mental health response program that operates on weekend nights \u003ca href=\"https://www.antipoliceterrorproject.org/mh-first-oakland\">called MH First Oakland\u003c/a> that uses a separate phone number, not 911.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Broad swaths of Black and brown people will not call the police ever for any reason. Someone could be being shot in broad daylight in front of their house, and they are not dialing 911. Why? Because our lived experience is police do not make it better when they show up,” says Brooks. “Things almost always are worse.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Despite those big concerns, Brooks remains cautiously hopeful the new effort will mean real change for a city and police department that have been \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2018/08/08/636319870/in-oakland-more-data-hasnt-meant-less-racial-disparity-during-police-stops\">under federal oversight now\u003c/a> for nearly two decades.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If we can just get out of the Oakland bureaucracy, red tape, ego and drama,” Brooks says with a smile, “I think there’s an opportunity for us to build something really powerful.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This story includes additional reporting from KQED’s Matthew Green.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"fullattribution\">Copyright 2021 NPR. 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And Butts agrees that peer counselors with life experience in these systems can and are often an important part of any front-line response.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But she says extensive education and training do matter when addressing the often complex mix facing someone in a mental health or substance use crisis.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Social workers will have a skill set — problem-solving, relationship building, de-escalation — that really lends itself to this to this type of community problem solving,” Butts says. She notes nonpolice responders must accurately assess the situation quickly under often stressful conditions. “And then decide what is the most effective response.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Whatever model cities use, it’s important they collect and share data on what’s working and what’s not “so that we can learn from our experience and improve these systems,” Butts says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2020/10/19/924146486/removing-cops-from-behavioral-crisis-calls-we-need-to-change-the-model\">As NPR has reported\u003c/a>, across the bay in San Francisco, the city’s new police-free Street Crisis Response Teams put a fire department paramedic with a trained clinical social worker and a peer counselor to help respond to some crisis calls for people who are homeless, intoxicated, having a mental health challenge, or all of the above.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The four teams now deployed in San Francisco’s pilot project are, so far, able to respond to only a small number of the overall behavioral crisis calls in that city. 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"content": "\u003cp>Oakland Mayor Libby Schaaf’s\u003ca href=\"https://stories.opengov.com/oaklandca/published/lTrMIWK3R\"> proposed budget\u003c/a> for the coming fiscal year would nearly double the amount of money for police overtime, increasing the city’s law enforcement spending by almost 8% — even as city leaders last summer pledged to slash the department’s budget amid widespread racial justice protests.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Schaaf's proposed budget for the 2021-23 budget cycle, which\u003ca href=\"https://www.eastbaytimes.com/2021/05/11/oakland-mayors-proposed-budget-increases-police-spending/\"> she presented last Monday\u003c/a> to the Oakland City Council, includes about $61 million over the next two years for police overtime — up from roughly $32 million in the last two-year budget cycle.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote align=\"right\" size=\"medium\" citation=\"Ed Reiskin, Oakland city administrator\"]'If people are working so much that they can’t be effective and work safely, that’s my concern.'[/pullquote]That would increase total police spending from about $317 million this fiscal year to $341 million starting in July — or roughly 41% of the city's general fund — and then up to nearly $352 million the year after.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Schaaf's proposal, which she says “aligns with historical spending,” comes after a year of already hefty police overtime expenditures. In the 2020 calendar year, the city spent more than $35 million on police overtime, enabling more than 100 officers to more than double their base salaries, which raised total police personnel costs well above $250 million.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Overtime Windfall\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>That year, 73 officers and 63 sergeants earned more than Schaaf herself, whose own compensation package, including pay and benefits, was $337,140, according to city salary data obtained through a public records request.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Topping that list was Officer Timothy S. Dolan, who was the highest compensated employee in the department and the second-highest in all of city government. On top of his reported 2020 base salary of $134,080, Dolan earned more than $301,000 in overtime pay. That put his total compensation package, including health care and payments the city made into his pension fund, at $589,809.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The city has investigated the possibility that some of the highest-earning Oakland Police Department employees were taking advantage of the overtime system, said Oakland City Administrator Ed Reiskin. But he said no abuse has been found, as far as he is aware. Rather, he pointed to short staffing as the primary driver of overtime spending.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“My concern isn’t one officer making a lot of money. That’s not inherently problematic,” Reiskin said. “If people are working so much that they can’t be effective and work safely, that’s my concern.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last year, 64 OPD employees made over $100,000 in overtime alone.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Records show that many OPD employees brought in significant portions of their income through overtime work, in addition to lump-sum payments and other types of compensation. The data show that 107 OPD employees were paid more than double their base salary in 2020, including 17 who were paid more than triple, and five who were paid about quadruple.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That includes Officer Malcolm E. Miller, who brought home $362,000 last year (not including benefits), though his base salary was only $82,925.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Miller, Dolan and all other police personnel named in this story did not respond to emails requesting comment. OPD also would not comment and declined our requests to interview the officers.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>‘You’re Making a Choice’\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Sgt. Barry Donelan, president of the Oakland Police Officers' Association, said logging this many overtime hours suggests that these top earners volunteered for many additional assignments. The department regularly sends out emails to staff looking for officers willing to work overtime on special details or at public events, like Oakland A’s games, he noted.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label=\"related coverage\" tag=\"opd\"]“When you get to those kinds of numbers, you’re making a choice,” Donelan said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The city has policies intended to prevent officers from working too often. For example, OPD’s overtime policy states that department members who are ordered to work beyond their regular shifts are entitled to eight hours of rest before their next assignment begins. Members who work voluntary overtime are also supposed to have at least eight hours of rest between work periods, unless otherwise authorized by a commander. They are also supposed to take one day off each week, but a commander can override that.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The overtime policy places the burden of tracking rest periods on the officers, who are supposed to notify their managers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Donelan said that OPD management waives overtime restrictions to meet demands for services, especially during periods of frequent mass demonstrations, like the Black Lives Matter protests last summer after the murder of George Floyd by a Minneapolis police officer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those same protests led to mounting pressure to scale back police funding. In response, city leaders formed a task force to rethink the department's operations and make recommendations for cutting its annual budget by $150 million — or roughly half.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>History of Spending Over Budget\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>A 2019 city auditor’s\u003ca href=\"https://www.oaklandauditor.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/20190610_Performance-Audit_OPD-Overtime_Report.pdf\"> investigation\u003c/a> into OPD’s overtime use found that many officers worked a staggering number of off-duty hours. The report noted that police officers in San Francisco were not allowed to work more than 520 overtime hours each year. But in Oakland, 30% of officers exceeded that limit in the 2017-2018 fiscal year, when 24 sworn officers worked more than 1,249 overtime hours, and one member logged at least 2,600 hours.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The auditor recommended OPD establish an annual limit on how many overtime hours employees can work in one year. But the Schaaf administration disagreed, and when OPD implemented its new overtime policy in December, it did not include an annual limit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For over a decade, OPD has consistently spent millions more than the amount allotted by the city, mostly driven by overtime hours and other personnel spending. For example, in the 2019-2020 fiscal year, OPD spent a total of nearly $338 million, according to the city’s comprehensive annual financial \u003ca href=\"https://cao-94612.s3.amazonaws.com/documents/CAFR-2020.pdf\">analysis\u003c/a>. And in a report to the City Council \u003ca href=\"https://cao-94612.s3.amazonaws.com/documents/FY-2019-20-Q4-Rev-Exp-Agenda-Report-FINAL120720-002.pdf\">last October, \u003c/a>Oakland Director of Finance Margaret O’Brien wrote that OPD exceeded its general-purpose fund budget by more than $32 million.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And in recent years, the department has regularly paid out more than twice as much for overtime as the council has budgeted.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11874450\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1640px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/opd2.png\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11874450\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/opd2.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1640\" height=\"873\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/opd2.png 1640w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/opd2-800x426.png 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/opd2-1020x543.png 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/opd2-160x85.png 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/opd2-1536x818.png 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1640px) 100vw, 1640px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Source: Data from a March 2021 memo sent by Oakland Police Chief LeRonne Armstrong showing the difference between how much overtime the Oakland City Council approved in its budget versus how much OPD actually spent on overtime pay. The FY 2020-21 actual amount is a projection because the fiscal year has not ended. \u003ccite>(Matthew Green/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>As OPD continued to exceed its overtime budget in 2020, the city’s revenue plummeted due to the COVID-19 pandemic, prompting O’Brien to write \u003ca href=\"https://cao-94612.s3.amazonaws.com/documents/FY-2020-21-Q2-RE-Report.pdf\">in a February memo\u003c/a> that the city was “experiencing a financial crisis.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If the city continued to spend at the rate it did in 2020, she cautioned, it would drain its emergency reserves. “This situation puts the City in jeopardy of being unable to pay for its daily operations,” O’Brien wrote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She added that “personnel costs in the Police Department (OPD) is the primary area of overspending in the City’s budget.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2020, the city spent over $257 million on police department employee compensation, including base salaries, overtime, benefits, and other pay. That made up over 35% of citywide personnel spending that year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oakland Councilmember At Large Rebecca Kaplan said that last year’s OPD spending is the latest example of how Schaaf and Reiskin disregard spending restrictions laid out in the city’s budget and adopted by the council. They have given some city departments more than they were budgeted, and others less than they were budgeted, skirting the public budget process, she added.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Not only are they spending money that wasn’t authorized, and not only is this a violation of democracy, but the extra things that the administrator has been giving [OPD] without council approval are largely things that have nothing to do with public safety,” Kaplan said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She pointed out that OPD’s overtime spending was particularly egregious in 2020, blaming the department's heavy-handed response to Black Lives Matter protests in June.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a December 2020 memo, then-interim Police Chief Susan Manheimer, who has since been replaced by LeRonne Armstrong, wrote that the department spent nearly $2.5 million on protest activity “associated with Minneapolis Solidarity” by the end of June, and another $1.28 million on protest activity throughout the rest of the summer.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003cstrong>The Steep Costs of Backfilling \u003c/strong>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Demonstrations, however, weren’t the biggest reason for overtime spending last year. Manheimer’s December memo shows that backfill and shift extensions, which are largely used to maintain minimum patrol staffing of 35 officers per shift, had a much larger price tag. Those two categories cost the city $12.8 million in fiscal year 2019-20 and another $9.8 million so far in 2020-21.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Reiskin, the city administrator, said that OPD’s reliance on overtime to maintain minimum staffing levels speaks to a core problem: The department is too understaffed to fulfill all the services the city is demanding of its police. The city is budgeted to have 786 sworn police personnel, which he noted is significantly lower than in other cities of comparable population and level of violent crime. And that, he said, forces OPD to fill in the gaps by assigning overtime.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Further compounding the problem, the department last year had 47 sworn vacancies and 62 professional staff vacancies, Manheimer wrote in her memo.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Additionally, an uptick in homicides this year prompted Armstrong, the police chief, to recently create a\u003ca href=\"https://oaklandnorth.net/2021/04/05/oakland-police-create-new-division-to-address-murder-spike/\"> special division on violent crime\u003c/a>, which he filled by reassigning 60 officers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]In a March memo to the Oakland City Council, Armstrong wrote that as the department struggles to maintain its minimum patrol staff at 35 officers per shift, there is little capacity to assign officers to special assignments on their regular shift time. For that reason, he said, the department has “become almost entirely reliant on overtime” to address many specialized police details. That includes response teams focused on sideshows, areas with high levels of violent crime, homicide operations, Lake Merritt patrols, and traffic investigations, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many overtime assignments come from superiors as orders, Donelan, the union president, said. “The gripe I get more than anything is the guy who \u003cem>doesn’t \u003c/em>want to work overtime,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Donelan explained that overtime orders can come in different forms. A watch commander might hold an officer on the clock after realizing that not enough officers are coming in for the next shift. Or the chief might order a “one call” phone notification, in which an officer is reached at home and ordered to report to work.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Comp Time\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>The 2019 city audit identified another big reason for OPD's glut in overtime: Officers can choose to receive compensatory time off (comp time) instead of money as reimbursement for working overtime. Since overtime work is compensated at time and a half, an officer working 10 hours of overtime can elect to receive 15 hours of comp time. When an officer takes that paid time off, another officer has to fill in, most likely using more overtime.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11873804\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1007px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/comp.time_.png\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11873804\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/comp.time_.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1007\" height=\"445\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/comp.time_.png 1007w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/comp.time_-800x354.png 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/comp.time_-160x71.png 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1007px) 100vw, 1007px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">This figure, published in a 2019 report by the Oakland city auditor, shows how reimbursing overtime work with comp time can make overtime hours, and costs, soar. \u003ccite>(Courtesy Oakland City Auditor)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The 2019 audit reported that OPD officers are capped at 300 hours of comp time, the highest limit of any major city in California. Despite previous warnings from the city auditor about the comp time issue, the city did not address OPD’s high comp time accrual limit during its \u003ca href=\"https://www.oaklandca.gov/documents/union-contracts\">most recent negotiation\u003c/a> with the police officers union, which went into effect in December 2018. Since comp time accrual is part of the city’s agreement with the union, this system is set in stone until the next contract negotiation in 2024.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The audit noted that one specific officer was mostly responsible for determining the number of officers needed to staff events. It didn’t name the officer, but said he regularly assigned himself to work special events, and that he was the department’s second-highest overtime earner for five years in a row.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In December, the Schaaf administration implemented service cuts across departments to get a handle on the city’s overspending. Many of those cuts were to OPD overtime work, including sideshow enforcement, as well as some homicide and ceasefire operations, with personnel re-assigned to supplement understaffed patrol squads.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those cuts also included a reduction of police patrols in Oakland's Chinatown shortly before a streak of attacks against the Asian community in Oakland and other cities across the country.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote align=\"right\" size=\"medium\" citation=\"Sgt. Barry Donelan, president of the Oakland Police Officers' Association\"]'The challenge within the police department is that everything every day is the highest community priority. Our service load is continuing to rise.'[/pullquote]On April 12, the City Council passed a resolution to use federal relief funding to reverse some of the service cuts. After a four-month hiatus, the city said it would restore funding for OPD community safety ambassadors in Chinatown and other neighborhoods, foot-patrol officers and ceasefire operations. This came amid a wave of violence that hit the city in the first quarter of 2021, resulting in 34 homicides, triple the number recorded in the first quarter of 2020.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The challenge within the police department is that everything every day is the highest community priority,” Donelan said. “Our service load is continuing to rise.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That could change if the Oakland City Council adopts the recommendations of the \u003ca href=\"https://www.oaklandca.gov/topics/reimagining-public-safety\">Reimagining Public Safety Taskforce\u003c/a> that it created after last summer's protests. Among the task force’s proposals are shifting staffing from police to civilian workers for a range of services, including responses to mental health calls and internal affairs investigations.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>An Uncertain Future\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Schaaf’s proposed $341 million police budget for next year is a far cry from the Oakland City Council’s pledge last summer to cut OPD funding in half.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The proposed budget would fund six police recruiting academies in the next two years, bringing additional officers onto the force — a move Chief Armstrong argues will reduce overtime expenses by increasing the department’s capacity to cover assignments on regularly assigned time. It would also transfer OPD’s vehicle enforcement unit to the city’s transportation department, as recommended by the task force, and add $2.6 million in funding over two years to launch a program to dispatch community responders, instead of police, to non-violent emergency calls.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, the proposed budget does not incorporate other key recommendations of the task force, including staffing the 911 call center with employees from other departments.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Over the next six weeks, the Oakland City Council will decide what changes to make to Schaaf’s proposal before adopting the final two-year city budget.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I fully agree with the Reimagining Public Safety Taskforce recommendation that we need to cap OPD overtime,” said Councilmember Loren Taylor, who co-chairs the task force, at the May 10 council meeting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"What I want to do is roll up sleeves and figure out what is a realistic overtime to hold ourselves to,” Taylor added. “That's something we have never been able to do because we have never been honest about what past overtime expenditures were and therefore, we were setting ourselves up for failure the entire time.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This story comes to KQED through a partnership with the\u003c/em>\u003ca href=\"https://journalism.berkeley.edu/programs/mj/investigative-reporting/\"> \u003cem>Investigative Reporting Program\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003cem> at the UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism. A version of the story first appeared in the publication\u003c/em>\u003ca href=\"https://oaklandnorth.net/2021/04/28/oakland-police-overtime-payments/\"> \u003cem>Oakland North\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003cem> on April 28, 2021.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>That would increase total police spending from about $317 million this fiscal year to $341 million starting in July — or roughly 41% of the city's general fund — and then up to nearly $352 million the year after.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Schaaf's proposal, which she says “aligns with historical spending,” comes after a year of already hefty police overtime expenditures. In the 2020 calendar year, the city spent more than $35 million on police overtime, enabling more than 100 officers to more than double their base salaries, which raised total police personnel costs well above $250 million.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Overtime Windfall\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>That year, 73 officers and 63 sergeants earned more than Schaaf herself, whose own compensation package, including pay and benefits, was $337,140, according to city salary data obtained through a public records request.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Topping that list was Officer Timothy S. Dolan, who was the highest compensated employee in the department and the second-highest in all of city government. On top of his reported 2020 base salary of $134,080, Dolan earned more than $301,000 in overtime pay. That put his total compensation package, including health care and payments the city made into his pension fund, at $589,809.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The city has investigated the possibility that some of the highest-earning Oakland Police Department employees were taking advantage of the overtime system, said Oakland City Administrator Ed Reiskin. But he said no abuse has been found, as far as he is aware. Rather, he pointed to short staffing as the primary driver of overtime spending.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“My concern isn’t one officer making a lot of money. That’s not inherently problematic,” Reiskin said. “If people are working so much that they can’t be effective and work safely, that’s my concern.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last year, 64 OPD employees made over $100,000 in overtime alone.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Records show that many OPD employees brought in significant portions of their income through overtime work, in addition to lump-sum payments and other types of compensation. The data show that 107 OPD employees were paid more than double their base salary in 2020, including 17 who were paid more than triple, and five who were paid about quadruple.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That includes Officer Malcolm E. Miller, who brought home $362,000 last year (not including benefits), though his base salary was only $82,925.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Miller, Dolan and all other police personnel named in this story did not respond to emails requesting comment. OPD also would not comment and declined our requests to interview the officers.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>‘You’re Making a Choice’\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Sgt. Barry Donelan, president of the Oakland Police Officers' Association, said logging this many overtime hours suggests that these top earners volunteered for many additional assignments. The department regularly sends out emails to staff looking for officers willing to work overtime on special details or at public events, like Oakland A’s games, he noted.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>“When you get to those kinds of numbers, you’re making a choice,” Donelan said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The city has policies intended to prevent officers from working too often. For example, OPD’s overtime policy states that department members who are ordered to work beyond their regular shifts are entitled to eight hours of rest before their next assignment begins. Members who work voluntary overtime are also supposed to have at least eight hours of rest between work periods, unless otherwise authorized by a commander. They are also supposed to take one day off each week, but a commander can override that.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The overtime policy places the burden of tracking rest periods on the officers, who are supposed to notify their managers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Donelan said that OPD management waives overtime restrictions to meet demands for services, especially during periods of frequent mass demonstrations, like the Black Lives Matter protests last summer after the murder of George Floyd by a Minneapolis police officer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those same protests led to mounting pressure to scale back police funding. In response, city leaders formed a task force to rethink the department's operations and make recommendations for cutting its annual budget by $150 million — or roughly half.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>History of Spending Over Budget\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>A 2019 city auditor’s\u003ca href=\"https://www.oaklandauditor.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/20190610_Performance-Audit_OPD-Overtime_Report.pdf\"> investigation\u003c/a> into OPD’s overtime use found that many officers worked a staggering number of off-duty hours. The report noted that police officers in San Francisco were not allowed to work more than 520 overtime hours each year. But in Oakland, 30% of officers exceeded that limit in the 2017-2018 fiscal year, when 24 sworn officers worked more than 1,249 overtime hours, and one member logged at least 2,600 hours.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The auditor recommended OPD establish an annual limit on how many overtime hours employees can work in one year. 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And in a report to the City Council \u003ca href=\"https://cao-94612.s3.amazonaws.com/documents/FY-2019-20-Q4-Rev-Exp-Agenda-Report-FINAL120720-002.pdf\">last October, \u003c/a>Oakland Director of Finance Margaret O’Brien wrote that OPD exceeded its general-purpose fund budget by more than $32 million.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And in recent years, the department has regularly paid out more than twice as much for overtime as the council has budgeted.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11874450\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1640px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/opd2.png\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11874450\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/opd2.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1640\" height=\"873\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/opd2.png 1640w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/opd2-800x426.png 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/opd2-1020x543.png 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/opd2-160x85.png 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/opd2-1536x818.png 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1640px) 100vw, 1640px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Source: Data from a March 2021 memo sent by Oakland Police Chief LeRonne Armstrong showing the difference between how much overtime the Oakland City Council approved in its budget versus how much OPD actually spent on overtime pay. The FY 2020-21 actual amount is a projection because the fiscal year has not ended. \u003ccite>(Matthew Green/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>As OPD continued to exceed its overtime budget in 2020, the city’s revenue plummeted due to the COVID-19 pandemic, prompting O’Brien to write \u003ca href=\"https://cao-94612.s3.amazonaws.com/documents/FY-2020-21-Q2-RE-Report.pdf\">in a February memo\u003c/a> that the city was “experiencing a financial crisis.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If the city continued to spend at the rate it did in 2020, she cautioned, it would drain its emergency reserves. “This situation puts the City in jeopardy of being unable to pay for its daily operations,” O’Brien wrote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She added that “personnel costs in the Police Department (OPD) is the primary area of overspending in the City’s budget.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2020, the city spent over $257 million on police department employee compensation, including base salaries, overtime, benefits, and other pay. That made up over 35% of citywide personnel spending that year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oakland Councilmember At Large Rebecca Kaplan said that last year’s OPD spending is the latest example of how Schaaf and Reiskin disregard spending restrictions laid out in the city’s budget and adopted by the council. They have given some city departments more than they were budgeted, and others less than they were budgeted, skirting the public budget process, she added.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Not only are they spending money that wasn’t authorized, and not only is this a violation of democracy, but the extra things that the administrator has been giving [OPD] without council approval are largely things that have nothing to do with public safety,” Kaplan said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She pointed out that OPD’s overtime spending was particularly egregious in 2020, blaming the department's heavy-handed response to Black Lives Matter protests in June.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a December 2020 memo, then-interim Police Chief Susan Manheimer, who has since been replaced by LeRonne Armstrong, wrote that the department spent nearly $2.5 million on protest activity “associated with Minneapolis Solidarity” by the end of June, and another $1.28 million on protest activity throughout the rest of the summer.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003cstrong>The Steep Costs of Backfilling \u003c/strong>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Demonstrations, however, weren’t the biggest reason for overtime spending last year. Manheimer’s December memo shows that backfill and shift extensions, which are largely used to maintain minimum patrol staffing of 35 officers per shift, had a much larger price tag. Those two categories cost the city $12.8 million in fiscal year 2019-20 and another $9.8 million so far in 2020-21.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Reiskin, the city administrator, said that OPD’s reliance on overtime to maintain minimum staffing levels speaks to a core problem: The department is too understaffed to fulfill all the services the city is demanding of its police. The city is budgeted to have 786 sworn police personnel, which he noted is significantly lower than in other cities of comparable population and level of violent crime. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>In a March memo to the Oakland City Council, Armstrong wrote that as the department struggles to maintain its minimum patrol staff at 35 officers per shift, there is little capacity to assign officers to special assignments on their regular shift time. For that reason, he said, the department has “become almost entirely reliant on overtime” to address many specialized police details. That includes response teams focused on sideshows, areas with high levels of violent crime, homicide operations, Lake Merritt patrols, and traffic investigations, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many overtime assignments come from superiors as orders, Donelan, the union president, said. “The gripe I get more than anything is the guy who \u003cem>doesn’t \u003c/em>want to work overtime,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Donelan explained that overtime orders can come in different forms. A watch commander might hold an officer on the clock after realizing that not enough officers are coming in for the next shift. Or the chief might order a “one call” phone notification, in which an officer is reached at home and ordered to report to work.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Comp Time\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>The 2019 city audit identified another big reason for OPD's glut in overtime: Officers can choose to receive compensatory time off (comp time) instead of money as reimbursement for working overtime. Since overtime work is compensated at time and a half, an officer working 10 hours of overtime can elect to receive 15 hours of comp time. When an officer takes that paid time off, another officer has to fill in, most likely using more overtime.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11873804\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1007px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/comp.time_.png\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11873804\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/comp.time_.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1007\" height=\"445\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/comp.time_.png 1007w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/comp.time_-800x354.png 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/comp.time_-160x71.png 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1007px) 100vw, 1007px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">This figure, published in a 2019 report by the Oakland city auditor, shows how reimbursing overtime work with comp time can make overtime hours, and costs, soar. \u003ccite>(Courtesy Oakland City Auditor)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The 2019 audit reported that OPD officers are capped at 300 hours of comp time, the highest limit of any major city in California. Despite previous warnings from the city auditor about the comp time issue, the city did not address OPD’s high comp time accrual limit during its \u003ca href=\"https://www.oaklandca.gov/documents/union-contracts\">most recent negotiation\u003c/a> with the police officers union, which went into effect in December 2018. Since comp time accrual is part of the city’s agreement with the union, this system is set in stone until the next contract negotiation in 2024.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The audit noted that one specific officer was mostly responsible for determining the number of officers needed to staff events. It didn’t name the officer, but said he regularly assigned himself to work special events, and that he was the department’s second-highest overtime earner for five years in a row.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In December, the Schaaf administration implemented service cuts across departments to get a handle on the city’s overspending. Many of those cuts were to OPD overtime work, including sideshow enforcement, as well as some homicide and ceasefire operations, with personnel re-assigned to supplement understaffed patrol squads.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those cuts also included a reduction of police patrols in Oakland's Chinatown shortly before a streak of attacks against the Asian community in Oakland and other cities across the country.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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Democrats have pointed to former President Donald Trump's \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2020/06/22/881810671/white-house-defends-trumps-use-of-racist-term-to-describe-coronavirus\">frequent use of racist phrases\u003c/a> such as \"kung-flu\" to describe the coronavirus as a link to the increase in anti-Asian sentiment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The legislation, introduced by Rep. Grace Meng, D-New York, and Sen. 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We cannot mend what we do not measure,\" she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>House Speaker Nancy Pelosi praised the bill as \"important legislation to address a grave and growing crisis.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The COVID-19 Hate Crimes Bill will strengthen our defenses against any anti-AAPI violence, speeding our response to hate crime, supporting state and local governments as they improve reporting, and ensuring that they have crimes information and it's more accessible to the Asian American communities,\" she said on the floor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The legislation \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2021/04/22/989773400/in-rare-moment-of-bipartisan-unity-senate-approves-asian-american-hate-crimes-bi\">passed the Senate last month\u003c/a> with a rare bipartisan vote of 94 to 1. Republican Sen. Josh Hawley of Missouri voted against the measure.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ahead of the bill's final passage Tuesday, Rep. 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Asian Americans are tired of living in fear and being frightened about their kids or elderly parents going outside.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The community experienced a dramatic \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2021/03/18/978438147/on-capitol-hill-asian-american-leaders-to-voice-very-real-fear-in-community\">spike in the number of hate crimes\u003c/a> in the past year. The organization \u003ca href=\"https://stopaapihate.org/national-report-through-march-2021/\">Stop AAPI Hate documented 6,603 hate incidents\u003c/a> from March 2020 to March 2021, and leaders said the true number is much higher as many attacks go unreported. 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Hui \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/Mayor-Breed-looks-to-fire-SF-building-inspection-15120965.php\">stepped down\u003c/a> after Mayor London Breed urged that he be removed when the investigation was made public.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Herrera’s announcement of Wong’s settlement lays bare the threads between all of the men in the scandal so far.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Documents made public in the investigations of Nuru, Hui and Kelly revealed that Wong’s connection to all three related back to his close relationship with former Mayor Ed Lee,” the announcement reads.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Indeed, in one of the federal charging documents, Wong and Kelly discuss one of Wong’s permits and mention a meeting with “35,” a reference to Ed Lee’s initials on a phone keypad.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since his indictment in June 2020, Wong has pleaded guilty for his crimes. 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Funds will be disbursed to the city from $1 million already seized by the federal government from Wong when a conviction is reached, according to the settlement agreement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wong will be barred from doing business with San Francisco for five years under legislation passed just last year by the Board of Supervisors and proposed by Herrera in August.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Under that law, Herrera has barred other contractors who were also embroiled in the corruption scandal, mostly for alleged bribery: Nick Bovis (the owner of Lefty O’Doul’s restaurant), Alan Varela and William Gilmartin of ProVen Management, and Florence Kong, as well as her companies SFR Recovery Inc. and Kwan Wo Ironworks Inc.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since the corruption scandal emerged, the city attorney’s office and the city controller have conducted a public integrity investigation to identify the systems and practices that allowed corruption to flourish in several San Francisco government departments. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A report they released in June last year revealed Nuru \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11826653/bad-policies-and-practices-report-highlights-weak-sf-laws-that-enable-public-corruption\">was given unprecedented independence in awarding contracts\u003c/a> without oversight by the mayor’s office.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mayor Breed immediately instituted new practices recommended by that report to institute tighter contracting oversight.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cp>His answer was crystal clear: “No. Never will.” That’s how a prison guard at California Rehabilitation Center in Norco feels about taking the COVID-19 vaccine, and he’s not alone.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There’s the Sacramento-area correctional officer with more than 15 years on the job who “doesn’t believe in” vaccinations. A sergeant from Northern California with eight years of experience who “appreciates” prisons offering employees the vaccine, but still doesn’t feel comfortable taking it, and then there's a prison psychologist from Southern California who feels protected because of having had a prior case of COVID.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>All spoke to CalMatters only on condition of anonymity, and they are among the \u003ca href=\"https://www.cdcr.ca.gov/covid19/population-status-tracking/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">57% of California prison employees skipping free COVID vaccinations\u003c/a> offered on the job as of May 10, according to data from the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation. Experts don’t think it’s common that those workers chose to be vaccinated anyplace less convenient.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As California \u003ca href=\"https://abc7.com/herd-immunity-sf-san-francisco-covid-19-cases-california/10586281/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">pursues herd immunity\u003c/a> — or something close to it — some 37,000 state prison workers remain unvaccinated. In 30 of 35 institutions, less than half of employees are fully vaccinated. Currently, less than 3% of staff are waiting on their second jab, according to the statewide data.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe src=\"https://flo.uri.sh/visualisation/6109069/embed\" title=\"Interactive or visual content\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" width=\"100%\" height=\"500\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Active COVID cases inside California prisons have slowly declined since peaking in late December 2020, around the time the system rolled out its voluntary vaccination program for inmates and staff. In the past two weeks, state data shows just 14 COVID cases reported among California prisoners — but 108 cases among prison staff.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While the state’s prodding may slowly boost the staff vaccination rate, critics say urging isn’t enough.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a recent statement filed in U.S. District Court in Oakland as part of \u003ca href=\"https://www.clearinghouse.net/detail.php?id=589#:~:text=Summary%3A%20On%20August%2020%2C%202001,services%20were%20inadequate%2C%20and%20violated\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">a class-action suit that forced California’s prison health care under court control\u003c/a>, attorneys for prisoners \u003ca href=\"https://rbgg.com/wp-content/uploads/Dkt-3579-3579-3-PLATA-Joint-CMC-Statement_04.27.21_0489.OVR_.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">asked that staff vaccinations become mandatory\u003c/a>. “We believe that the time has come for the Receiver and (the corrections department) to protect the interests of the incarcerated population, their employees and the community by requiring that all staff be vaccinated,” wrote plaintiffs’ attorneys from the Prison Law Office.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Corrections officer at California Rehabilitation Center, Norco\"]'A lot of us have already had COVID and recovered, so we don’t see the point in getting the vaccine.'[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>State attorneys representing the prison’s health care system didn’t directly address the request, instead reiterating educational and marketing efforts to encourage more staff to get vaccinated.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a statement emailed to CalMatters, a spokesperson from California Correctional Health Care Services, which provides health care inside California prisons, said prisons are beefing up their outreach and “providing open vaccine clinics over the next couple weeks to assist our staff in furthering their vaccine efforts.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Advocates say vaccine reluctance among guards and other prison staff jeopardizes the health of fellow workers and people held in prison who have no control over their proximity to others. And they point out a precedent: The University of \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/us-news-health-education-california-coronavirus-vaccine-28a4729ef178edad794d4362c5f2482a#:~:text=SAN%20FRANCISCO%20(AP)%20%E2%80%94%20Two,State%20University%20campuses%20this%20fall.\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">California is requiring all students, faculty and staff on its campuses be vaccinated before returning this fall.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“People in prison and the staff, frankly, are at greater risk than college students and people who work for the university and colleges,” said \u003ca href=\"https://prisonlaw.com/about-us/staff/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Don Specter, executive director of the Prison Law Office.\u003c/a> “So if they can do it, I don’t see a reason why the prisons can’t do it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s a step the state isn’t prepared to take absent new guidance from the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention or court intervention, according to the emailed statement from the prison health services spokesperson.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s hesitancy on the part of everybody, including the judge, to instill mandate,” said Hadar Aviram, professor at UC Hastings College of the Law. “There isn’t actually a legal problem to say to people, ‘If you don’t get vaccinated, you have no business working (in state prisons).' ”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But for many prison employees, making vaccination a job requirement would be a step too far.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“A lot of us have already had COVID and recovered, so we don’t see the point in getting the vaccine,” said a correctional officer who tested positive in December 2020 at Norco, where 38% of employees have had COVID. “I have the natural antibodies. I get sick every year from something at work, so I figured it’d be a matter of time. I was amazed I lasted all the way to December.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many prison workers, \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/politics/2021/04/california-covid-vaccine-resistance/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">like many Americans\u003c/a>, aren’t sold on being vaccinated against COVID. Some cite fears about the possible side effects of the vaccine, others contend that they are protected by antibodies developed from prior COVID illness, and still others say they simply don’t believe in vaccines.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“About half of my unit is vaccinated,” said a correctional officer in Northern California. “The others ... are waiting to see what’s going on and what the long-term effects (of the vaccine) are going to be.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Hadar Aviram, professor at UC Hastings College of Law\"]'We ended up reaching herd immunity in some prisons the tragic way — because people just got sick and died.'[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since last summer, the coronavirus has \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/justice/2020/11/california-prisons-covid/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">swept through the state prisons\u003c/a>, leaving at least 222 people dead and infecting more than 50,000 prisoners. Guards were also infected. Throughout the system, more than \u003ca href=\"https://www.cdcr.ca.gov/covid19/cdcr-cchcs-covid-19-status/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">16,000 prison staff have tested positive\u003c/a> for the virus, and 26 employees have died, according to the data. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is not a whim,” said Aviram, the UC Hastings law professor. “The fact that there’s very few cases in prison now isn’t because we won the battle over the virus. It’s because the virus won. We ended up reaching herd immunity in some prisons the tragic way — because people just got sick and died.” [aside tag=\"san-quentin\" label=\"More Related Coverage\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With the virus spreading among employees, prison officials have asked union officials to help them get more people vaccinated.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Using incentives, education and behavioral science methods, the union launched “an aggressive campaign in partnership with state government, strongly urging all our members to get vaccinated,” said Glen Stailey, California Correctional Peace Officers Association union president. That includes videos showing union board members being vaccinated, and consulting with UC Berkeley’s Goldman School of Public Policy on how to convince more workers to get the vaccine.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s a push that hasn’t gone unnoticed by staff, who say the fact that fully vaccinated employees can skip weekly COVID tests are influencing some employees to say, “maybe I will ... get the vaccine, whether or not they want it,” said a veteran correctional officer from the Sacramento area who doesn’t believe in vaccinations — and says the union’s marketing has failed to change her mind. “It’s just one of those things where, you know, it makes it a little bit easier for them at work or wherever they are.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Of the more than 26,000 department employees who have opted for full vaccination, many still say they are uncomfortable encouraging their colleagues to do the same.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’ve been vaccinated,” said a rehabilitation specialist who works in Southern California. “I don’t have a problem doing that. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>His answer was crystal clear: “No. Never will.” That’s how a prison guard at California Rehabilitation Center in Norco feels about taking the COVID-19 vaccine, and he’s not alone.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There’s the Sacramento-area correctional officer with more than 15 years on the job who “doesn’t believe in” vaccinations. A sergeant from Northern California with eight years of experience who “appreciates” prisons offering employees the vaccine, but still doesn’t feel comfortable taking it, and then there's a prison psychologist from Southern California who feels protected because of having had a prior case of COVID.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>All spoke to CalMatters only on condition of anonymity, and they are among the \u003ca href=\"https://www.cdcr.ca.gov/covid19/population-status-tracking/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">57% of California prison employees skipping free COVID vaccinations\u003c/a> offered on the job as of May 10, according to data from the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation. Experts don’t think it’s common that those workers chose to be vaccinated anyplace less convenient.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As California \u003ca href=\"https://abc7.com/herd-immunity-sf-san-francisco-covid-19-cases-california/10586281/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">pursues herd immunity\u003c/a> — or something close to it — some 37,000 state prison workers remain unvaccinated. In 30 of 35 institutions, less than half of employees are fully vaccinated. Currently, less than 3% of staff are waiting on their second jab, according to the statewide data.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe src=\"https://flo.uri.sh/visualisation/6109069/embed\" title=\"Interactive or visual content\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" width=\"100%\" height=\"500\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>State attorneys representing the prison’s health care system didn’t directly address the request, instead reiterating educational and marketing efforts to encourage more staff to get vaccinated.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a statement emailed to CalMatters, a spokesperson from California Correctional Health Care Services, which provides health care inside California prisons, said prisons are beefing up their outreach and “providing open vaccine clinics over the next couple weeks to assist our staff in furthering their vaccine efforts.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Advocates say vaccine reluctance among guards and other prison staff jeopardizes the health of fellow workers and people held in prison who have no control over their proximity to others. And they point out a precedent: The University of \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/us-news-health-education-california-coronavirus-vaccine-28a4729ef178edad794d4362c5f2482a#:~:text=SAN%20FRANCISCO%20(AP)%20%E2%80%94%20Two,State%20University%20campuses%20this%20fall.\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">California is requiring all students, faculty and staff on its campuses be vaccinated before returning this fall.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“People in prison and the staff, frankly, are at greater risk than college students and people who work for the university and colleges,” said \u003ca href=\"https://prisonlaw.com/about-us/staff/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Don Specter, executive director of the Prison Law Office.\u003c/a> “So if they can do it, I don’t see a reason why the prisons can’t do it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s a step the state isn’t prepared to take absent new guidance from the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention or court intervention, according to the emailed statement from the prison health services spokesperson.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s hesitancy on the part of everybody, including the judge, to instill mandate,” said Hadar Aviram, professor at UC Hastings College of the Law. “There isn’t actually a legal problem to say to people, ‘If you don’t get vaccinated, you have no business working (in state prisons).' ”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But for many prison employees, making vaccination a job requirement would be a step too far.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“A lot of us have already had COVID and recovered, so we don’t see the point in getting the vaccine,” said a correctional officer who tested positive in December 2020 at Norco, where 38% of employees have had COVID. “I have the natural antibodies. I get sick every year from something at work, so I figured it’d be a matter of time. I was amazed I lasted all the way to December.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many prison workers, \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/politics/2021/04/california-covid-vaccine-resistance/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">like many Americans\u003c/a>, aren’t sold on being vaccinated against COVID. Some cite fears about the possible side effects of the vaccine, others contend that they are protected by antibodies developed from prior COVID illness, and still others say they simply don’t believe in vaccines.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“About half of my unit is vaccinated,” said a correctional officer in Northern California. “The others ... are waiting to see what’s going on and what the long-term effects (of the vaccine) are going to be.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>The Alameda City Council plans to meet for a \u003ca href=\"https://legistar1.granicus.com/alameda/meetings/2021/5/5435_A_City_Council_21-05-08_Meeting_Agenda.pdf\">special session\u003c/a> on Saturday to consider immediate policing reforms following the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11871345/city-of-alameda-releases-police-body-cam-footage-of-mario-gonzalez-death\">death of Mario Gonzalez\u003c/a> last month. Gonzalez, a 26-year-old Oakland man, stopped breathing after several Alameda police officers held him face-down on the ground for roughly five minutes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The proposed reforms include creating a civilian police oversight board, revising the department's use-of-force policies and requiring a \"non-police response\" to certain types of 911 calls.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"An immediate step that can be taken is a process for civilian oversight of police actions that involve physical contact, and random checks of body camera video, just to make sure we have some eyes, a second set of review,\" said Councilmember John Knox White, who is also pushing for the city to pilot a mental health response unit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote align=\"right\" size=\"medium\" citation=\"David Thomas, former police tactical trainer and professor of forensic studies\"]'I don't understand why they felt compelled to engage [Gonzalez] to the point where they had to handcuff him and control. Because it makes no sense'[/pullquote]Alameda police have been under intense national scrutiny since \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11871345/city-of-alameda-releases-police-body-cam-footage-of-mario-gonzalez-death\">body camera footage\u003c/a> was released last week showing two officers confronting Gonzalez in a small city park on April 19. They were responding to 911 calls from neighbors who said he was acting disoriented and appeared to be breaking security tags off alcohol bottles.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"He seems like he’s tweaking. But he’s not doing anything wrong, he’s just scaring my wife,\" one of the callers said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The incident begins calmly, but after the officers' make repeated, unsuccessful attempts to obtain Gonzalez's full name or ID, they grab him, never telling him he's under arrest. When Gonzalez resists being handcuffed, two officers take him to the ground, pinning him on his stomach, with at least one pressing an elbow and knee into his back and shoulder. They handcuff Gonzalez, holding him down for roughly five minutes, as he continues to struggle, at which point he appears to lose consciousness and stops breathing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many social justice activists and policing experts alike have lambasted the officers, accusing them of unnecessarily escalating a situation that did not necessitate the use of force.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gonzalez's family and their supporters are now pushing for the officers to be charged with murder, drawing comparisons to the death of George Floyd, who was \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11870396/court-says-jury-has-reached-verdict-in-derek-chauvins-murder-trial\">murdered\u003c/a> last May by Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin, who knelt on his neck for more than 9 minutes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the weeks since Gonzalez's death, multiple separate investigations into the incident have been initiated, including criminal investigations by the Alameda County Sheriff’s Department and Alameda County District Attorney’s Office, and an outside investigation by a private law firm hired by the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I don't understand why they felt compelled to engage [Gonzalez] to the point where they had to handcuff him and control. Because it makes no sense,\" said David Thomas, a professor of forensic studies at Florida Gulf Coast University and former police tactical trainer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I think they were determined that they were going to detain him in order to get to that point, to find out who he was,\" he said. \"I don't see that as being a requirement if the person's not a threat to anybody. And if you just need him to move along, why don't you have that conversation and ask?\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_11871345 hero='https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/RS48857_044_Alameda_MarioGonzalezPressConf_04272021-qut-1020x679.jpg']Thomas also noted that the officers erred in failing to tell Gonzalez why they were detaining him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"You need to clarify,\" he said. \"What is your purpose? And that was never stated.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Regardless, Thomas said, after the officers forced Gonzalez to the ground, they should have immediately tried to move him into a sitting position to ensure he was able to properly breathe.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>An attorney for the officers said they did nothing wrong.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“These officers used the lowest degree of force possible given the intensity of Mr. Gonzalez's efforts to evade their grasp,\" Alison Berry Wilkinson told \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/henrykleeKTVU/status/1387540533497634820\">KTVU\u003c/a> last week.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The officers had to act to ensure the safety of Gonzalez because he appeared intoxicated and disoriented and they were concerned he would fall if left there, Wilkinson said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There was never a point in time where any officer's knee was on Mr. Gonzalez's neck. Nor was there a time when they were pressing down hard enough on his body to cause him not to breathe,\" she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Alameda Police Department has been no stranger to controversy. It came under fire last May for use of heavy-handed tactics following the release of a video \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/crime/article/Alameda-Police-release-body-cam-footage-of-black-15322278.php\">showing officers pinning a 44-year-old Black man\u003c/a> to the ground and handcuffing him, after he had been seen dancing in the street near his house. The police chief \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/crime/article/Alameda-police-chief-retires-after-28-years-on-15427045.php\">announced his retirement\u003c/a> the following month.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And in 2018, a \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/crime/article/Video-exclusive-Navy-vet-who-died-8-days-after-15364030.php\">40-year-old navy veteran died\u003c/a> eight days after Alameda police arrested him, pinning him to the ground on his stomach and tasing him multiple times.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gonzalez's death has drawn renewed attention to a California bill that would bar police from applying pressure or body weight to a restrained person’s neck, torso or back, or laying them face up or face down without proper monitoring.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11872840\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS48847_033_Alameda_MarioGonzalezPressConf_04272021-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1278\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11872840\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS48847_033_Alameda_MarioGonzalezPressConf_04272021-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS48847_033_Alameda_MarioGonzalezPressConf_04272021-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS48847_033_Alameda_MarioGonzalezPressConf_04272021-qut-1020x679.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS48847_033_Alameda_MarioGonzalezPressConf_04272021-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS48847_033_Alameda_MarioGonzalezPressConf_04272021-qut-1536x1022.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mario Gonzalez's mother, Edith Arenales, puts her head together with her son Geraldo Gonzalez before speaking at a news conference outside the Alameda Police Department on April 27, 2021. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB490\">Assembly Bill 490\u003c/a>, authored by Democratic Assemblyman Mike Gipson, D-Carson, a former police officer, would outlaw techniques that create a substantial risk of what's known as \"positional asphyxia\" — detaining someone in a way that compresses their airways and reduces the ability to breathe normally. The legislation follows California's \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB1196\">recent ban\u003c/a> on police use of carotid restraints or choke holds, a measure also introduced by Gipson.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"This does not mean that a police officer can no longer restrain anyone when they need to for public safety, but it would mean that they cannot keep anyone from breathing/losing oxygen when restraining them,\" Gipson said in a statement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The California State Sheriffs’ Association has called the language in the new bill overly broad, arguing that violations would be too difficult to judge and that an all-out ban would leave officers fewer options for handling violent suspects, making them more likely to use batons or stun guns.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Timothy T. Williams Jr., a police tactics expert who spent nearly 30 years with the Los Angeles Police Department, said that while most departments already have policies on this, those guidelines need to be much clearer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Case in point: the Alameda Police Department's \u003ca href=\"https://www.alamedaca.gov/files/assets/public/departments/alameda/police/alameda-police-department-policy-manual-11022020.pdf\">policy manual\u003c/a> states that a suspect \"shall not be placed on his/her stomach for an extended period, as this could reduce the person’s ability to breathe.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The policy needs to be more specific and directed,\" Williams said. \"Once he or she is handcuffed, they are to be immediately removed from the prone position, put on their side and if possible sat up.\" Otherwise, he said, “You leave everything to subjective interpretation: What may be short to you may be long to me.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label=\"related coverage\" tag=\"mario-gonzalez\"]From a medical standpoint, any restriction of oxygen or blood flow is too long, said UCSF neurologist Nicole Rosendale.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"There are no kind of safe, defined ways to have someone in a position like this and reduce oxygen,\" she said. \"There’s no way to predict who might be at higher risk or lower risk of complications from this positioning.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gonzalez's death also rekindles the longstanding national debate – amplified in the wake of George Floyd's murder — over which kinds of responders are best suited to handle various types of non-emergency situations, and when police officers should not be involved. These are among the heated questions the Alameda City Council intends to take up this weekend.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"This was a tragic and avoidable incident that once again demonstrates the danger of involving law enforcement and interactions with people experiencing mental health crises and substance-use issues,\" said Jennifer Stark, an attorney with Disability Rights California, one of the many groups that support reallocating resources to community service agencies and enlisting them to respond to certain non-violent calls. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"This is not a violent person. There were no safety issues raised. There were some concerns potentially about mental health issues. And this is one of those cases where it would have been perfectly appropriate to involve mental health professionals to come in to speak with Mario and to de-escalate the situation.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"There was no crisis,\" she added, \"until the law enforcement got involved.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Randy Fenn, Alameda's interim police chief, said he agrees on the need to reexamine this dynamic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I think that's going to be a really important question going forward,\" Fenn said. \"Who are the appropriate responders?\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But that can get complicated fast, he added, noting that in this case, Gonzalez seemed to be acting erratically and could have become potentially dangerous.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Now, would properly trained, non-sworn people be the best to respond to this? Possibly,\" he said. \"Would they be in some level of danger? Again, possibly. 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And that was never stated.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Regardless, Thomas said, after the officers forced Gonzalez to the ground, they should have immediately tried to move him into a sitting position to ensure he was able to properly breathe.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>An attorney for the officers said they did nothing wrong.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“These officers used the lowest degree of force possible given the intensity of Mr. Gonzalez's efforts to evade their grasp,\" Alison Berry Wilkinson told \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/henrykleeKTVU/status/1387540533497634820\">KTVU\u003c/a> last week.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The officers had to act to ensure the safety of Gonzalez because he appeared intoxicated and disoriented and they were concerned he would fall if left there, Wilkinson said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There was never a point in time where any officer's knee was on Mr. Gonzalez's neck. Nor was there a time when they were pressing down hard enough on his body to cause him not to breathe,\" she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Alameda Police Department has been no stranger to controversy. It came under fire last May for use of heavy-handed tactics following the release of a video \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/crime/article/Alameda-Police-release-body-cam-footage-of-black-15322278.php\">showing officers pinning a 44-year-old Black man\u003c/a> to the ground and handcuffing him, after he had been seen dancing in the street near his house. The police chief \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/crime/article/Alameda-police-chief-retires-after-28-years-on-15427045.php\">announced his retirement\u003c/a> the following month.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And in 2018, a \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/crime/article/Video-exclusive-Navy-vet-who-died-8-days-after-15364030.php\">40-year-old navy veteran died\u003c/a> eight days after Alameda police arrested him, pinning him to the ground on his stomach and tasing him multiple times.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gonzalez's death has drawn renewed attention to a California bill that would bar police from applying pressure or body weight to a restrained person’s neck, torso or back, or laying them face up or face down without proper monitoring.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11872840\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS48847_033_Alameda_MarioGonzalezPressConf_04272021-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1278\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11872840\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS48847_033_Alameda_MarioGonzalezPressConf_04272021-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS48847_033_Alameda_MarioGonzalezPressConf_04272021-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS48847_033_Alameda_MarioGonzalezPressConf_04272021-qut-1020x679.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS48847_033_Alameda_MarioGonzalezPressConf_04272021-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS48847_033_Alameda_MarioGonzalezPressConf_04272021-qut-1536x1022.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mario Gonzalez's mother, Edith Arenales, puts her head together with her son Geraldo Gonzalez before speaking at a news conference outside the Alameda Police Department on April 27, 2021. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB490\">Assembly Bill 490\u003c/a>, authored by Democratic Assemblyman Mike Gipson, D-Carson, a former police officer, would outlaw techniques that create a substantial risk of what's known as \"positional asphyxia\" — detaining someone in a way that compresses their airways and reduces the ability to breathe normally. 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