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Last month, the city of Richmond deactivated its own camera network after discovering that federal officials could search their database.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Oakland Police Department, meanwhile, has defended the technology as an essential tool for solving violent crimes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lt. Gabriel Urquiza told the council that since the cameras were first deployed in July 2024, the system has led to 232 arrests and the recovery of 68 firearms. Department data shows carjackings dropped from an average of 40 per month before the cameras were installed to 17 per month in 2025.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12036580\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1999px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12036580\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/230802-OAKLAND-CITY-HALL-MHN-07_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1999\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/230802-OAKLAND-CITY-HALL-MHN-07_qed.jpg 1999w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/230802-OAKLAND-CITY-HALL-MHN-07_qed-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/230802-OAKLAND-CITY-HALL-MHN-07_qed-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/230802-OAKLAND-CITY-HALL-MHN-07_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/230802-OAKLAND-CITY-HALL-MHN-07_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/230802-OAKLAND-CITY-HALL-MHN-07_qed-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1999px) 100vw, 1999px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Oakland City Hall in downtown Oakland on Aug. 2, 2023. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>To address privacy concerns, the council adopted a series of amendments proposed by Councilmembers Charlene Wang and Rowena Brown. The new contract includes:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>A strict prohibition on sharing data with federal immigration agencies or out-of-state law enforcement for the purpose of investigating reproductive health care or gender-affirming care.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>A “two-key” approval system requiring both the city’s chief privacy officer and the OPD information technology director to authorize any new data-sharing relationships.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>A mandate for quarterly independent compliance audits overseen by the city auditor.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>A requirement that the city begin a request for proposal process within 18 months to identify potential alternative vendors, preventing an automatic renewal with Flock.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>Many of the provisions, such as the prohibition on sharing data with Immigration and Customs Enforcement or for out-of-state abortion investigations, reiterate existing Oakland sanctuary policies and California state law.[aside postID=news_12066924 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/SFLicensePlateReader-1020x675.jpg']“My goal is to ensure that Oakland’s legislation is fully aligned with state law, as well as the essential protections that are needed in the policy,” Brown said. “I do want to minimize the potential risk this technology presents.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The debate highlighted deep divisions within the city. While privacy advocates dominated much of the public comment during Tuesday’s meeting, many business owners from Chinatown and Little Saigon urged the council to pass the measure.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We need to have cameras in order to protect the merchants so they feel safe and can open longer hours,” said Josephine Hui, member of the Toishan-Oakland Chinatown Patrol Team.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, opponents argued that the system’s potential for abuse outweighed its benefits.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Why don’t we really prevent crime by funding [the Department of Violence Prevention]? Violence prevention programs have been proven to stop crime,” said Hannah Zuckerman, a District 2 resident. “We do not need data being shared, and license plate data is personal data.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While the city-funded network is expanding, some neighborhoods are not waiting for municipal action. 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However, just last week, the Rules Committee fast-tracked the item to the full council, a move that privacy groups said was designed to bypass committee-level opposition.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11984097\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11984097\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/SAN-JOSE-LICENSE-PLATE-READERS-11-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"A man with a fluorescent yellow coat holds a black machine.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/SAN-JOSE-LICENSE-PLATE-READERS-11-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/SAN-JOSE-LICENSE-PLATE-READERS-11-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/SAN-JOSE-LICENSE-PLATE-READERS-11-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/SAN-JOSE-LICENSE-PLATE-READERS-11-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/SAN-JOSE-LICENSE-PLATE-READERS-11-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/SAN-JOSE-LICENSE-PLATE-READERS-11-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A Flock Safety worker holds up a new automated license plate reader that was being installed in East San José on April 23, 2024. \u003ccite>(Joseph Geha/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Councilmember Carroll Fife, the sole “no” vote on Tuesday, criticized her colleagues for advancing a contract with a company that has faced national scrutiny over data sharing with federal entities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I don’t know how we get up and have several press conferences talking about how we are supportive of a sanctuary city status, but then use a vendor that has been shown to have a direct relationship with Border Control,” Fife said from the dais. “It doesn’t make sense to me.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Earlier this year, the \u003ca href=\"https://sfstandard.com/2025/07/14/oakland-san-francisco-ice-license-plate-readers/\">\u003cem>San Francisco Standard\u003c/em>\u003c/a> reported that federal agencies had accessed data from Oakland’s cameras. Last month, the city of Richmond deactivated its own camera network after discovering that federal officials could search their database.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Oakland Police Department, meanwhile, has defended the technology as an essential tool for solving violent crimes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lt. Gabriel Urquiza told the council that since the cameras were first deployed in July 2024, the system has led to 232 arrests and the recovery of 68 firearms. 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"content": "\u003cp>Oakland’s City Council will vote next week on a controversial \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12005347/the-east-bay-has-hundreds-of-new-surveillance-cameras-and-more-are-on-the-way\">surveillance technology contract\u003c/a>, just weeks after it failed to advance out of committee amid concerns over the company’s data-sharing practices.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Oakland Police Department’s proposal to extend the contract with Flock Safety, which operates nearly 300 automatic license plate reader cameras across the city, did not pass a vote in the council’s Public Safety Committee last month. But this week, it was brought back before the Rules Committee, which moved it forward on Thursday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m deeply concerned that this process feels like it lacks transparency and democracy,” Councilmember Carroll Fife said. “This item failed in committee and should go back to committee and be deliberated in that space.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to Lance Wilson, policy and communications director at the Anti Police-Terror Project, the contract was only added to the Rules Committee meeting agenda on Wednesday afternoon, “with less than 24 hours’ notice to the public.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He called the committee’s decision to revive a contract vote by the council “stunning and undemocratic,” saying more than 4,000 Oakland residents have urged the council to vote no on Flock expansion, and more than 40 organizations, including the ACLU of Northern California and multiple local unions, submitted a joint letter warning that approving the contract would hurt immigrants, communities of color and unhoused residents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fife and many residents had spoken out against granting a new two-year contract to the Atlanta-based company. The city’s volunteer Privacy Advisory Commission also refused to endorse OPD’s contract plan.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Privacy advocates have long had \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12064587/civil-liberties-groups-sue-san-jose-over-license-plate-reader-use\">concerns about the amount of data\u003c/a> stored, collected and shared by Flock, but its technology has come under increased scrutiny in recent months after reports revealed that its searchable license plate database has been used to aid federal investigations, including by the Department of Homeland Security and Immigration and Customs Enforcement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>State law prohibits local law enforcement from sharing automated license plate data with out-of-state and federal agencies, and Oakland’s sanctuary city policy bars police and city officials from aiding in immigration enforcement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Over the summer, the \u003ca href=\"https://sfstandard.com/2025/07/14/oakland-san-francisco-ice-license-plate-readers/\">\u003cem>San Francisco Standard\u003c/em>\u003c/a> reported that OPD’s data was accessed on behalf of federal agencies, and just last month, Richmond shut down its network of cameras after discovering that the data they captured was searchable by federal agencies, despite believing it was for internal use only.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In November, the nonprofit Secure Justice and its leader, Brian Hofer, sued Oakland over the reports of data sharing. The suit alleges that the department’s data was made accessible to at least six federal agencies and a number of non-California state and local agencies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A month prior, Attorney General Rob Bonta \u003ca href=\"https://oag.ca.gov/news/press-releases/attorney-general-bonta-sues-el-cajon-illegally-sharing-license-plate-data-out\">sued the city of El Cajon\u003c/a> in San Diego County over similar Flock data sharing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11984097\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11984097\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/SAN-JOSE-LICENSE-PLATE-READERS-11-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"A man with a fluorescent yellow coat holds a black machine.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/SAN-JOSE-LICENSE-PLATE-READERS-11-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/SAN-JOSE-LICENSE-PLATE-READERS-11-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/SAN-JOSE-LICENSE-PLATE-READERS-11-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/SAN-JOSE-LICENSE-PLATE-READERS-11-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/SAN-JOSE-LICENSE-PLATE-READERS-11-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/SAN-JOSE-LICENSE-PLATE-READERS-11-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A Flock Safety worker holds up a new automated license plate reader that was being installed in East San José on Tuesday, April 23, 2024. \u003ccite>(Joseph Geha/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>As part of Flock’s services, it offers contracted agencies multiple data sharing options: a “National Lookup,” which allows two-way access to data between all Flock Safety customers who have opted in; a “State Lookup,” which creates a similar arrangement with other Flock customers only in their home state; and a 1:1 sharing option, which requires customers to add agencies they would like to share data with individually.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oakland has previously said that its license-plate reader data would not be made accessible outside OPD due to privacy concerns, but city documents show that the data was made accessible and shared with at least six federal and a number of non-California state and local agencies, according to Hofer’s lawsuit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The city has been using a network of 290 Flock cameras along highways and high-traffic areas to aid in police investigations since March 2024. Around the same time, departments across the Bay Area \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11989977/san-franciscos-new-license-plate-readers-are-leading-to-arrests-and-concerns-about-privacy\">entered similar contracts\u003c/a> with Flock as part of a push to crack down on crime.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_12064587 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/image-9.png']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last month, OPD proposed a two-year, $2.25 million contract for Flock to maintain the existing camera network and allow police to access private cameras in the company’s system when the current contract ends in February.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The four-member Public Safety Committee deadlocked, with Councilmembers Charlene Wang and Ken Houston voting in favor and Councilmembers Rowena Brown and Fife voting against it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the meeting, Fife said she feared the data “falling into the hands of bad actors that have a track record” of working with agencies involved in immigration enforcement. She suggested that the department consider other vendors who could provide similar technology to use instead.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When the proposal was brought back to the Rules Committee this week, Councilmembers Kevin Jenkins and Janani Ramachandran, along with Brown, voted in favor of agendizing the contract vote, while Fife lodged the sole vote against.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I believe that we can use cameras for public safety tools, but this vendor has shown time and time again that they will just thwart the rule of law in cities and states all over the nation,” Fife said Thursday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In public comment during Thursday’s meeting, Councilmember Houston voiced support for the plan, and representatives from Councilmember Zac Unger and Wang’s office also supported moving the vote forward.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s slated for a vote at the full council on Tuesday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Oakland’s City Council will vote next week on a controversial \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12005347/the-east-bay-has-hundreds-of-new-surveillance-cameras-and-more-are-on-the-way\">surveillance technology contract\u003c/a>, just weeks after it failed to advance out of committee amid concerns over the company’s data-sharing practices.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Oakland Police Department’s proposal to extend the contract with Flock Safety, which operates nearly 300 automatic license plate reader cameras across the city, did not pass a vote in the council’s Public Safety Committee last month. But this week, it was brought back before the Rules Committee, which moved it forward on Thursday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m deeply concerned that this process feels like it lacks transparency and democracy,” Councilmember Carroll Fife said. “This item failed in committee and should go back to committee and be deliberated in that space.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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The city’s volunteer Privacy Advisory Commission also refused to endorse OPD’s contract plan.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Privacy advocates have long had \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12064587/civil-liberties-groups-sue-san-jose-over-license-plate-reader-use\">concerns about the amount of data\u003c/a> stored, collected and shared by Flock, but its technology has come under increased scrutiny in recent months after reports revealed that its searchable license plate database has been used to aid federal investigations, including by the Department of Homeland Security and Immigration and Customs Enforcement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>State law prohibits local law enforcement from sharing automated license plate data with out-of-state and federal agencies, and Oakland’s sanctuary city policy bars police and city officials from aiding in immigration enforcement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Over the summer, the \u003ca href=\"https://sfstandard.com/2025/07/14/oakland-san-francisco-ice-license-plate-readers/\">\u003cem>San Francisco Standard\u003c/em>\u003c/a> reported that OPD’s data was accessed on behalf of federal agencies, and just last month, Richmond shut down its network of cameras after discovering that the data they captured was searchable by federal agencies, despite believing it was for internal use only.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In November, the nonprofit Secure Justice and its leader, Brian Hofer, sued Oakland over the reports of data sharing. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last month, OPD proposed a two-year, $2.25 million contract for Flock to maintain the existing camera network and allow police to access private cameras in the company’s system when the current contract ends in February.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The four-member Public Safety Committee deadlocked, with Councilmembers Charlene Wang and Ken Houston voting in favor and Councilmembers Rowena Brown and Fife voting against it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the meeting, Fife said she feared the data “falling into the hands of bad actors that have a track record” of working with agencies involved in immigration enforcement. She suggested that the department consider other vendors who could provide similar technology to use instead.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When the proposal was brought back to the Rules Committee this week, Councilmembers Kevin Jenkins and Janani Ramachandran, along with Brown, voted in favor of agendizing the contract vote, while Fife lodged the sole vote against.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I believe that we can use cameras for public safety tools, but this vendor has shown time and time again that they will just thwart the rule of law in cities and states all over the nation,” Fife said Thursday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In public comment during Thursday’s meeting, Councilmember Houston voiced support for the plan, and representatives from Councilmember Zac Unger and Wang’s office also supported moving the vote forward.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s slated for a vote at the full council on Tuesday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>For Oaklander Lucé Lu, the news this week that the city would soon be \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12065601/oakland-begins-installing-speed-cameras-in-18-locations-with-tickets-coming-in-march\">installing automated speed cameras at 18 locations\u003c/a> couldn’t have come soon enough.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“ Honestly, it’s long overdue,” Lu said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Standing next to a coffee shop on Broadway near downtown Oakland, Lu acknowledged that she had some concerns about the added surveillance the cameras would bring. Still, she said those worries were outweighed by her feeling that Oakland needs to address its speeding problem.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“ I see people that run through red [lights] constantly — all the time. It’s normalized, it’s like the culture here,” Lu said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A nearby stretch of Broadway between 26th and 27th streets is one of the sites the city has selected for its automated speed camera pilot. According to city data, 9.2% of drivers — over 1,000 per day — travel more than 10 mph over the speed limit on that block.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another future location of a speed camera on Hegenberger Road sees more than 10,000 vehicles — 43% of all drivers — exceeding the speed limit by more than 10 mph daily.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12065777\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12065777\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/12/251202-OAKSPEEDCAMERAS-10-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/12/251202-OAKSPEEDCAMERAS-10-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/12/251202-OAKSPEEDCAMERAS-10-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/12/251202-OAKSPEEDCAMERAS-10-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Vehicles drive through the intersection of Broadway and 26th Street in Oakland on Dec. 2, 2025, where a speed-camera pilot program will install a camera on Broadway between 26th and 27th streets. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Oakland is now on track to become the second California city, after San Francisco, to install automated speed cameras, realizing a hard-fought goal of many transportation and street safety advocates. The devices have a demonstrated track record of helping to reduce speeding in locations where they are placed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But even as the city prepares to roll out the new program, local transit leaders acknowledge that the cameras are just a part of the work Oakland needs to do to make streets safer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“ I don’t want to sit here and tell you I think this is going to solve everything,” said Josh Rowan, director of the Oakland Department of Transportation.[aside postID=news_12065601 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250805_SPEED-CAMERAS-FOLO_-0007_GH-KQED.jpg']Rowan said that while the city is excited about the cameras, there are other factors besides speeding that contribute to dangerous driving in Oakland, like the design of some of the city’s streets.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“ They’re very long, they’re very straight, they don’t have many stop-controlled intersections and they just run like raceways. They’re very fast,” Rowan said, referring specifically to streets like East 12th, East 14th and East 21st.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>About half of all of Oakland’s collisions are in intersections, when vehicles make left turns, Rowan said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We still can’t get away from things like the simple speed bump, or should we be rebuilding intersections as roundabouts?” Rowan said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Standing at the intersection of 26th and Broadway, Justin Hu-Nguyen, co-executive director of mobility justice at Bike East Bay, has seen issues with the street that the incoming speed camera there can’t fix — like how wide the street is, which can \u003ca href=\"https://ssti.us/2016/10/31/more-evidence-that-wider-roads-encourage-speeding/\">encourage\u003c/a> drivers to speed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Even here on Broadway, [the street] is six lanes across. A camera doesn’t make this intersection safe,” Hu-Nguyen said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12065778\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12065778\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/12/251202-OAKSPEEDCAMERAS-16-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/12/251202-OAKSPEEDCAMERAS-16-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/12/251202-OAKSPEEDCAMERAS-16-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/12/251202-OAKSPEEDCAMERAS-16-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Justin Hu-Nguyen stands near 26th Street and Broadway in Oakland on Dec. 2, 2025, a short distance from where a speed-camera pilot program will install a camera on Broadway between 26th and 27th streets. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Hu-Nguyen said Bike East Bay has mixed feelings about the cameras. On one hand, they are excited about Oakland implementing technology that will help encourage drivers to slow down, but they’re also concerned the project will take away precious city resources that could be spent on immediate, localized solutions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“ People want cars to slow down, and for us, the way to do it is to build infrastructure to make [streets slower], whether it’s a raised crosswalk, a speed table or speed humps,” Hu-Nguyen said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This year, 23 people have been killed in collisions in Oakland — the lowest recorded number of fatalities since 2019. City residents voted to fund street safety improvements with Measure KK in 2016 and Measure U in 2022, but Rowan said those were more “paving-centric type capital programs.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re looking as we go forward, should we be shifting the focus away from paving? Should we be looking at a more robust capital program focused on safety, where we actually get in and address some of these intersection issues?” Rowan said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12065779\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12065779\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/12/251202-OAKSPEEDCAMERAS-19-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/12/251202-OAKSPEEDCAMERAS-19-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/12/251202-OAKSPEEDCAMERAS-19-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/12/251202-OAKSPEEDCAMERAS-19-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Pedestrians cross at the intersection of Franklin and 7th Streets in Oakland on Dec. 2, 2025, near where a speed-camera pilot program will install a camera on 7th Street between Broadway and Franklin. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>All of the 18 camera locations are situated on the city’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.oaklandca.gov/Public-Safety-Streets/Traffic-Safety/2024-High-Injury-Network-HIN\">High Injury Network\u003c/a>, the minority of streets where the majority of severe and fatal crashes happen.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The city expects installation of the cameras to be completed by mid-January. According to state law, the cameras must issue warnings for the first two months before they give out tickets.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fines start at $50 for drivers traveling 11 mph or more over the posted speed limit, and top out at $500 for drivers driving more than 100 mph over the speed limit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Speed cameras began issuing fines to drivers in San Francisco in August, and in October, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12058605/sf-speed-cameras-are-issuing-tons-of-tickets-and-slowing-drivers-sfmta-says\">the city reported\u003c/a> that two-thirds of vehicles that received a first violation did not receive a second.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12065776\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12065776\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/12/251202-OAKSPEEDCAMERAS-05-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/12/251202-OAKSPEEDCAMERAS-05-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/12/251202-OAKSPEEDCAMERAS-05-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/12/251202-OAKSPEEDCAMERAS-05-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Traffic management cameras are installed at the intersection of Broadway and 26th Street in Oakland on Dec. 2, 2025, where a speed-camera pilot program will install a camera on Broadway between 26th and 27th streets. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Los Angeles, San José, Glendale and Long Beach are also planning to add the cameras in the coming years, as part of a statewide pilot program authorized by Gov. Gavin Newsom in 2023.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rowan stressed that the speed cameras are a 5-year pilot program and that the city will be monitoring the effectiveness of camera placement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“ Through this pilot, we have to demonstrate that the camera is reducing speed, and if it doesn’t, then we have to find another location,” Rowan said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A nearby stretch of Broadway between 26th and 27th streets is one of the sites the city has selected for its automated speed camera pilot. According to city data, 9.2% of drivers — over 1,000 per day — travel more than 10 mph over the speed limit on that block.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another future location of a speed camera on Hegenberger Road sees more than 10,000 vehicles — 43% of all drivers — exceeding the speed limit by more than 10 mph daily.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12065777\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12065777\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/12/251202-OAKSPEEDCAMERAS-10-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/12/251202-OAKSPEEDCAMERAS-10-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/12/251202-OAKSPEEDCAMERAS-10-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/12/251202-OAKSPEEDCAMERAS-10-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Vehicles drive through the intersection of Broadway and 26th Street in Oakland on Dec. 2, 2025, where a speed-camera pilot program will install a camera on Broadway between 26th and 27th streets. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Oakland is now on track to become the second California city, after San Francisco, to install automated speed cameras, realizing a hard-fought goal of many transportation and street safety advocates. The devices have a demonstrated track record of helping to reduce speeding in locations where they are placed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But even as the city prepares to roll out the new program, local transit leaders acknowledge that the cameras are just a part of the work Oakland needs to do to make streets safer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“ I don’t want to sit here and tell you I think this is going to solve everything,” said Josh Rowan, director of the Oakland Department of Transportation.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Rowan said that while the city is excited about the cameras, there are other factors besides speeding that contribute to dangerous driving in Oakland, like the design of some of the city’s streets.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“ They’re very long, they’re very straight, they don’t have many stop-controlled intersections and they just run like raceways. They’re very fast,” Rowan said, referring specifically to streets like East 12th, East 14th and East 21st.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>About half of all of Oakland’s collisions are in intersections, when vehicles make left turns, Rowan said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We still can’t get away from things like the simple speed bump, or should we be rebuilding intersections as roundabouts?” Rowan said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Standing at the intersection of 26th and Broadway, Justin Hu-Nguyen, co-executive director of mobility justice at Bike East Bay, has seen issues with the street that the incoming speed camera there can’t fix — like how wide the street is, which can \u003ca href=\"https://ssti.us/2016/10/31/more-evidence-that-wider-roads-encourage-speeding/\">encourage\u003c/a> drivers to speed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Even here on Broadway, [the street] is six lanes across. A camera doesn’t make this intersection safe,” Hu-Nguyen said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12065778\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12065778\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/12/251202-OAKSPEEDCAMERAS-16-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/12/251202-OAKSPEEDCAMERAS-16-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/12/251202-OAKSPEEDCAMERAS-16-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/12/251202-OAKSPEEDCAMERAS-16-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Justin Hu-Nguyen stands near 26th Street and Broadway in Oakland on Dec. 2, 2025, a short distance from where a speed-camera pilot program will install a camera on Broadway between 26th and 27th streets. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Hu-Nguyen said Bike East Bay has mixed feelings about the cameras. On one hand, they are excited about Oakland implementing technology that will help encourage drivers to slow down, but they’re also concerned the project will take away precious city resources that could be spent on immediate, localized solutions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“ People want cars to slow down, and for us, the way to do it is to build infrastructure to make [streets slower], whether it’s a raised crosswalk, a speed table or speed humps,” Hu-Nguyen said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This year, 23 people have been killed in collisions in Oakland — the lowest recorded number of fatalities since 2019. City residents voted to fund street safety improvements with Measure KK in 2016 and Measure U in 2022, but Rowan said those were more “paving-centric type capital programs.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re looking as we go forward, should we be shifting the focus away from paving? Should we be looking at a more robust capital program focused on safety, where we actually get in and address some of these intersection issues?” Rowan said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12065779\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12065779\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/12/251202-OAKSPEEDCAMERAS-19-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/12/251202-OAKSPEEDCAMERAS-19-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/12/251202-OAKSPEEDCAMERAS-19-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/12/251202-OAKSPEEDCAMERAS-19-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Pedestrians cross at the intersection of Franklin and 7th Streets in Oakland on Dec. 2, 2025, near where a speed-camera pilot program will install a camera on 7th Street between Broadway and Franklin. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>All of the 18 camera locations are situated on the city’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.oaklandca.gov/Public-Safety-Streets/Traffic-Safety/2024-High-Injury-Network-HIN\">High Injury Network\u003c/a>, the minority of streets where the majority of severe and fatal crashes happen.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The city expects installation of the cameras to be completed by mid-January. According to state law, the cameras must issue warnings for the first two months before they give out tickets.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fines start at $50 for drivers traveling 11 mph or more over the posted speed limit, and top out at $500 for drivers driving more than 100 mph over the speed limit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Speed cameras began issuing fines to drivers in San Francisco in August, and in October, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12058605/sf-speed-cameras-are-issuing-tons-of-tickets-and-slowing-drivers-sfmta-says\">the city reported\u003c/a> that two-thirds of vehicles that received a first violation did not receive a second.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12065776\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12065776\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/12/251202-OAKSPEEDCAMERAS-05-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/12/251202-OAKSPEEDCAMERAS-05-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/12/251202-OAKSPEEDCAMERAS-05-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/12/251202-OAKSPEEDCAMERAS-05-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Traffic management cameras are installed at the intersection of Broadway and 26th Street in Oakland on Dec. 2, 2025, where a speed-camera pilot program will install a camera on Broadway between 26th and 27th streets. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Los Angeles, San José, Glendale and Long Beach are also planning to add the cameras in the coming years, as part of a statewide pilot program authorized by Gov. Gavin Newsom in 2023.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rowan stressed that the speed cameras are a 5-year pilot program and that the city will be monitoring the effectiveness of camera placement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“ Through this pilot, we have to demonstrate that the camera is reducing speed, and if it doesn’t, then we have to find another location,” Rowan said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>Speeding drivers in \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/oakland\">Oakland\u003c/a> will soon receive tickets from automated speed cameras in 18 different locations, the city announced Monday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The city will install the cameras over the next several weeks, with an estimated completion date of mid-January. Per state law, the cameras must issue warnings for 60 days after they come online before they start ticketing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>City leaders hailed the program as a meaningful step to make Oakland streets safer. According to a city-wide crash \u003ca href=\"https://cao-94612.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/documents/Crash-Analysis-2017-2021_2025-04-01-195338_efvu.pdf\">analysis\u003c/a>, there are two traffic-related injuries or deaths in Oakland every week. The data also showed stark racial disparities — Black Oaklanders are four times more likely than their white neighbors to be killed or injured while walking on city streets.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Too many Oaklanders are being hurt or killed because of dangerous speeding,” Oakland Mayor Barbara Lee said in a press release. “This program is a smart, life-saving step forward and brings us closer to streets where everyone can travel safely.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The installation of the cameras comes more than two years after Gov. Gavin Newsom signed \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB645\">AB 645\u003c/a>, which authorized six California cities, including San José, Oakland and San Francisco, to pilot automated speed camera systems for a five-year period. Oakland is now the second city to make good on the law, after speed cameras \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12050882/sfs-speed-cameras-a-good-first-step-but-bittersweet-for-families-of-speeding-victims\">went online in 33 locations in San Francisco in August\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"OakDOT: Proposed Speed Safety Camera Locations\" aria-label=\"Map\" id=\"“san-jose”\" src=\"https://oakgis.maps.arcgis.com/apps/instant/basic/index.html?appid=b683cfc6bb1040498714103744ba91f0\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" style=\"border: none;\" width=\"1000\" height=\"650\" data-external=\"1\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oakland’s cameras will be installed along the city’s High Injury Network — the 8% of city streets that account for 60% of severe and fatal collisions. Oakland has recorded 23 traffic deaths in the city so far this year, a majority of which occurred on high-injury corridors. Traffic deaths have trended downward since 2022, when traffic collisions killed 36 people on city streets.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The report also said speeding is one of the most common causes of severe and fatal crashes in the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Saving lives is our top priority, and managing vehicle speed is one of the most effective strategies we have to prevent these tragic fatalities,” said Josh Rowan, Director of the Oakland Department of Transportation.[aside postID=news_12064587 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/image-9.png']A \u003ca href=\"https://www.ntsb.gov/safety/safety-studies/Documents/SS1701.pdf\">2017 study\u003c/a> from the National Transportation Safety Board concluded that automated speed enforcement is “an effective countermeasure to reduce speeding-related crashes, fatalities, and injuries.” However, the study acknowledges some limitations: automated speed enforcement does not stop a driver from speeding at the time of the offense, and leaves a driver free to continue speeding, as opposed to a traditional traffic stop by a police officer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Francisco has \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12058605/sf-speed-cameras-are-issuing-tons-of-tickets-and-slowing-drivers-sfmta-says\">reported promising results\u003c/a> since automated speed cameras went online there in August. In the first four months of the cameras issuing fines or warnings, the city reported a major decrease in speeding at speed camera locations. A San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency study tracking speeds along 15 of the corridors where the cameras have been installed found an average of 72% reduction in speeding. SFMTA recorded 260,142 warnings and citations sent to drivers over the summer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As in San Francisco, drivers caught speeding by a camera in Oakland can expect to pay:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>A $50 fee for going 11–15 mph over the posted speed limit;\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>$100 for going 16–25 mph over;\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>$200 for going 26 mph or more over the speed limit.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Additionally, any driver traveling more than 100 mph on city streets can expect a $500 ticket from the cameras.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>Oakland also plans to offer a 50%–80% fine reduction for drivers who are unable to pay their tickets.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The remaining four cities authorized to implement speed cameras by AB 645 have trailed behind Oakland and San Francisco. 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"content": "\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/oakland-police-department\">Oakland Police Department\u003c/a> appears to be backsliding in its efforts to investigate officer misconduct, according to new court filings this month.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>From January to March of this year, OPD investigated just 65% of severe misconduct allegations lodged against officers within six months — falling 20% short of a court-mandated threshold. The requirement is one of three remaining reforms the department needs to make to end more than \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/forum/2010101891855/oakland-police-departments-brutality-corruption-and-cover-up-and-long-road-toward-reform\">two decades of federal oversight stemming from a major police brutality scandal\u003c/a> involving a group of officers known as the “Riders” in 2000.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’ve been on this journey for many, many years, and so hopefully, we were getting closer to closure,” said civil rights attorney John Burris, who represented the group of Oakland residents who brought the Riders misconduct case against the department. “However, this sort of puts at bay the possibility that it will happen very soon. These are still significant issues.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>OPD has been under federal oversight since 2003, when it reached a settlement with Burris’ clients, and was tasked with making 52 operational reforms.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s come into compliance with the vast majority of those, but before a district judge could release the department from court monitoring, it must come into compliance with three remaining “tasks” regarding the thoroughness and timeliness of misconduct investigations, and consistency of enforcement of disciplinary policies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In his most recent report, issued last week, court monitor Robert Warshaw said OPD is out of compliance with its mandated 6-month investigation timeline and another task related to the more general procedures for fielding and investigating complaints against officers. It is only partially compliant with the requirement related to disciplinary enforcement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12017328\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12017328\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/OaklandPoliceDepartment2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1500\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/OaklandPoliceDepartment2.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/OaklandPoliceDepartment2-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/OaklandPoliceDepartment2-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/OaklandPoliceDepartment2-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/OaklandPoliceDepartment2-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/OaklandPoliceDepartment2-1920x1440.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Oakland Police Department on Nov. 12, 2016. \u003ccite>(Alex Emslie/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Warshaw noted that in regard to timely investigations, “there has been an unacceptable backslide” in recent months.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In July, Burris and Jim Chanin, another civil rights attorney who litigated the Riders case, raised alarms after investigators took \u003ca href=\"https://www.mercurynews.com/2025/07/03/oakland-police-federal-oversight-complaint/\">15 months to resolve a misconduct complaint\u003c/a>. In his recent report, Warsaw found that in the first quarter of 2025, investigators missed the six-month time limit in 19 cases.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The timeliness requirements for the completion of investigations are intended to ensure that members of the community who file complaints, or OPD personnel who are the subjects of complaints, can get redress in a six-month period of time,” Warshaw said. “[The task] has a lower compliance threshold than do the other tasks, so it is disappointing to note this backslide.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The court’s six-month window is more strict than the state’s mandated yearlong timeline for investigating such complaints.[aside postID=news_12064143 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/250930_WOMENINLAWENFORCEMENT_00679_TV-KQED-1.jpg']Warshaw reported that the department is in partial compliance with the reform regarding consistent discipline, but that ongoing timeliness and procedural issues have direct and indirect impacts that are keeping it from meeting full compliance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Burris noted a “concerning” point in the monitoring report: African American officers are being disciplined at higher rates than white officers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We need to figure that out as to what’s causing that,” the attorney said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The monitoring report said OPD is also out of compliance with the third remaining reform task related to the general quality and thoroughness of investigation procedures. But Warshaw was less specific about why that is.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He wrote that his monitoring team did not find non-compliance with many of the specific subtasks in the complaint process, but that “there remains in the Internal Affairs Bureau a number of issues, concerns, and developments” that cannot be discussed publicly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Burris said these appear to be issues in how the Bureau operates, more than the conclusions that they reach when they investigate misconduct allegations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oakland has been plagued by turnover in department leadership in recent years, among other controversies, which Burris said has made it challenging to ensure that leaders — especially those who come to Oakland from outside the department — understand and are committed to the reform work.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11981030\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11981030 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/240327-OPD-CHIEF-MITCHELL-MD-04-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/240327-OPD-CHIEF-MITCHELL-MD-04-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/240327-OPD-CHIEF-MITCHELL-MD-04-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/240327-OPD-CHIEF-MITCHELL-MD-04-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/240327-OPD-CHIEF-MITCHELL-MD-04-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/240327-OPD-CHIEF-MITCHELL-MD-04-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/240327-OPD-CHIEF-MITCHELL-MD-04-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Then-newly appointed OPD Chief, Floyd Mitchell, speaks at a press conference at Oakland City Hall on March 27, 2024. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“It is not our intent to single out any of its leadership, or its hardworking investigators,” Warshaw’s report continued. “But that said, there are matters of serious concern that remain unresolved.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Burris said Police Chief Floyd Mitchell, who \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11980455/oakland-mayor-sheng-thao-appoints-floyd-mitchell-as-new-police-chief\">came to Oakland from Texas in 2024\u003c/a> and announced that he would \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12059098/oaklands-police-chief-is-resigning-after-just-a-year-and-a-half\">step down in December\u003c/a>, had not seemed fully aware of how involved and central to the chief’s role the settlement compliance work would be, nor particularly interested in leading it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I didn’t think he understood the significance of the various reforms that we had agreed to and why they were important,” Burris \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12059098/oaklands-police-chief-is-resigning-after-just-a-year-and-a-half\">told KQED at the time\u003c/a>. “I think he was something he dealt with because he had to do it, and so I didn’t think he’s a willing participant in that process — a reluctant participant.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Warshaw said in the conclusion of his report that he is optimistic about the direction the department could move now under the leadership of \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12040935/barbara-lee-sworn-in-as-oaklands-mayor-says-today-marks-a-new-era\">Mayor Barbara Lee\u003c/a>, who took office in May.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The noncompliant tasks are a result of personnel and systemic failures not of her making,” Warshaw wrote. “Mayor Lee has immersed herself into [settlement agreement] matters and has been striving to ensure that the department is staffed with the best qualified leaders that are available.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the coming months, Lee will select a new Police Chief to replace Mitchell, who will helm the reform work and oversee the Internal Affairs Bureau.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is an opportunity for the mayor to really put together a futuristic team that not only covers the next couple of years, but into the next administration, and that [has] a vision and appreciation for the [settlement agreement] and what it’s trying to do,” Burris said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cp>Early on a Tuesday morning in September, eight men and women lined up against a bright blue and yellow wall in a back room of the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/oakland-police-department\">Oakland Police Department’s\u003c/a> downtown headquarters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wearing gray T-shirts with their last names printed on the back, they shouted, “Yes, ma’am” or “Yes, sir,” in soldier-like unison when high-ranking officers nearby gave orders or asked questions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The recruits were part of OPD’s 195th police academy — the first in more than a year after a major budget shortfall forced the city to pause basic training.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kimberly Galvan, one of three women in the class at the time, paid close attention as a defense tactics instructor explained how to drop to the ground and inch across the mat — a move that, if done well, could help the trainees avoid injury while on patrol.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In an interview with KQED just outside the room, Galvan recalled a male officer who had a positive influence on her growing up in Oakland. But, she said, she rarely encountered women in law enforcement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I never had any female police officer role models,” Galvan, 32, said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As an adult, she was drawn to public service and became an OPD dispatcher. As she answered 911 calls and heard female officers responding, it occurred to her: Why not become a police officer herself?\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12058730\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12058730\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/250930_WOMENINLAWENFORCEMENT_00039_TV-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/250930_WOMENINLAWENFORCEMENT_00039_TV-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/250930_WOMENINLAWENFORCEMENT_00039_TV-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/250930_WOMENINLAWENFORCEMENT_00039_TV-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Kimberly Galvan warms up during a class for the police academy at the Oakland Police Department on Sept. 30, 2025. \u003ccite>(Tâm Vũ/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“It inspired me, honestly, to want to take that next step in doing this,” Galvan said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Six weeks after her interview with KQED, however, Galvan was no longer in the academy. A spokesperson for the department said she did not pass one of the training courses required.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The class, which started with 26 recruits, is now down to 14, including one woman.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For her part, Galvan plans to join the 196th academy, which begins today, the spokesperson said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This will be her third attempt.[aside postID=news_12059098 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/240327-OPD-CHIEF-MITCHELL-MD-02-KQED-1020x680.jpg']Oakland is among a growing number of law enforcement agencies that have pledged to boost the number of women in their ranks. The effort is spearheaded by the 30×30 initiative, which aims to have women make up 30% of police recruits nationwide by the year 2030. More than 400 agencies have signed the 30×30\u003ca href=\"https://30x30initiative.org/the-30x30-pledge/\"> pledge\u003c/a>, committing to reporting data on staffing, rooting out discrimination and examining procedures for hiring and promotion.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But many agencies, including OPD, have struggled to meet that goal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2021, when OPD signed on to 30×30, 15% of the department’s officers were women.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Four years later, that number remains largely unchanged.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The department has created a lactation space and accompanying policy and is developing workshops for women interested in OPD jobs, said Sgt. Michael Romans-Rowe, who oversees the agency’s Background and Recruiting Unit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re looking at panels that will have command staff, officers, retirees that are able to bring their perspective to a woman that’s interested in joining law enforcement and specifically with our agency,” Romans-Rowe said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12058740\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12058740\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/250930_WOMENINLAWENFORCEMENT_01271_TV-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/250930_WOMENINLAWENFORCEMENT_01271_TV-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/250930_WOMENINLAWENFORCEMENT_01271_TV-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/250930_WOMENINLAWENFORCEMENT_01271_TV-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Michael J. Romans-Rowe, a police officer, poses for a portrait at the Oakland Police Department on Sept. 30, 2025. \u003ccite>(Tâm Vũ/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, the department is facing a worsening staffing crisis.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As of Nov. 21, OPD had 625 officers. With 102 on some form of leave — military, medical or administrative — that means 523 officers are actively working. Meanwhile, five to six officers on average leave OPD each month, according to the department.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>An \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/26209764-pfm-llc-opd-staffing-study/\">independent firm recommended\u003c/a> in April that Oakland have 877 police officers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It is likely that OPD’s percentage of female officers has remained relatively unchanged [due] to factors such as natural attrition, the budgeted reduction in overall sworn staffing levels, and the recent hiring freeze,” Romans-Rowe said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oakland isn’t alone. A 2019 study found 63% of surveyed police departments reported receiving fewer applications for sworn positions than in prior years. San Francisco’s police and sheriff’s departments are down 500 and 161 officers, respectively. The Alameda County Sheriff’s Office has nearly 200 vacancies, and Santa Clara County’s sheriff’s office is short 138 officers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In those first couple of years after the police murder of George Floyd, the profession was in crisis in a lot of ways. In some ways, I think, it continues to be,” said Maureen McGough, founder of the 30×30 initiative. “30×30 offers a promising and somewhat different path towards a partial solution for some of those problems.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12058738\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12058738\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/250930_WOMENINLAWENFORCEMENT_01098_TV-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/250930_WOMENINLAWENFORCEMENT_01098_TV-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/250930_WOMENINLAWENFORCEMENT_01098_TV-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/250930_WOMENINLAWENFORCEMENT_01098_TV-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The recruitment training unit can be found at the Oakland Police Department on Sept. 30, 2025. \u003ccite>(Tâm Vũ/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>For decades, McGough said, police departments tended to focus their recruiting on candidates with military backgrounds or criminal justice degrees.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Those are important populations. But there are other populations that are service-oriented with empathy and a desire to serve their community and great interpersonal skills — things that we know make good officers,” McGough said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, experts like Mary Dodge, professor of criminal justice at the University of Colorado, Denver, say that despite efforts to change the status quo, many agencies have struggled to boost the number of women in their ranks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m not at all surprised by the 15% number,” Dodge said about Oakland’s level of female staffing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Despite all the research we have and everything that says that women make good officers — they can do the job as well as men — nothing changes,” she said. “You really have to, at some level, attribute that to this hyper-masculine environment that they’re entering, even in 2025.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>‘You belong in business suits and heels’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>When Margaret Dixon was a young mother in 1980, she saw an advertisement featuring a female police officer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’ll never forget,” she recalled. “It said, ‘Woman. Wife. Cop.’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I fit all those categories,” Dixon said. “I was a woman, I was a wife. I was athletic. So I was like, ‘Wow, let me just try this.’ And I’m glad I did. It’s the best decision I could have made.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12063250\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12063250\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/251103-WOMENINLAWENFORCEMENT00562_TV-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/251103-WOMENINLAWENFORCEMENT00562_TV-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/251103-WOMENINLAWENFORCEMENT00562_TV-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/251103-WOMENINLAWENFORCEMENT00562_TV-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Margaret Dixon, a retired Oakland police officer who works with students at Merritt College, poses for a portrait at Merritt College in Oakland on Nov. 3, 2025. \u003ccite>(Tâm Vũ/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Dixon enrolled in Oakland’s police academy and worked for the department for 25 years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On a recent fall afternoon, she walked through a Merritt College classroom where she now advises the school’s Administration of Justice program, mentoring young women interested in careers in policing, corrections, and other justice-related fields.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That’s why I’m so positive about really trying to get other women to do it, because I think if they get into it and see what they can bring to the job, they’ll be happy that they did,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>An Oakland Office of the Inspector General report tracking OPD police academies and field training found the percentage of female recruits remained unchanged between 2019 and 2022.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dixon believes there needs to be more female police officers so women see the job as something they can do.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There are girls, young ladies, that want to do the work, but they don’t feel welcome because all they see is men,” Dixon said. “Women have to tell other women that — you can do this job.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12064208\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12064208\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/251103-womeninlawenforcement00527_TV_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/251103-womeninlawenforcement00527_TV_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/251103-womeninlawenforcement00527_TV_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/251103-womeninlawenforcement00527_TV_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Veronica (who did not share her last name for privacy reasons), a student at Merritt College who is studying to apply to the Oakland Police Academy, sits on a bench at Merritt College in Oakland on Nov. 3, 2025. \u003ccite>(Tâm Vũ/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>One of Dixon’s students, Veronica, recently took the Berkeley Police Department’s physical agility test but didn’t pass. KQED is not publishing her last name so she can speak candidly about the hiring process without harming her job prospects.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The image of law enforcement doesn’t look like me. It doesn’t look like a single mom,” Veronica said. “It looks like a huge, masculine man.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Veronica had always wanted to be a homicide detective, but when she started pursuing the career, she felt discouraged.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I even have male family members who have told me, like, you won’t be able to do it,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lack of support from her community has made breaking into such a male-dominated field harder, she said. It has felt like she’s doing it on her own.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12058732\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12058732\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/250930_WOMENINLAWENFORCEMENT_00606_TV-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/250930_WOMENINLAWENFORCEMENT_00606_TV-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/250930_WOMENINLAWENFORCEMENT_00606_TV-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/250930_WOMENINLAWENFORCEMENT_00606_TV-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">An instructor demonstrates a drill during a class for the police academy at the Oakland Police Department on Sept. 30, 2025. \u003ccite>(Tâm Vũ/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“You go to a lot of these events and a lot of these training exercises, you look around and it’s like you’re one of maybe two [women], and it’s scary. It’s really intimidating,” Veronica said. “And you’re looking at them like, you know, maybe they were right. Maybe I don’t belong here. Maybe I should go get that desk job they told me to get. Oh, ‘You belong in business suits and heels.’ And it’s like, that’s not what I want to do.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As she prepares physically and mentally to retake the test and apply to other academies, support from people like Dixon has helped, Veronica said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I want to see women because it makes us feel more able. Like I’m capable of the job. I see you’re here.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That means I can do it,” she said. “You have to stay encouraged.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>OPD Deputy Chief of Police Lisa Ausmus said she thinks the department has evolved since she first joined in 2000.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’ve just learned as a department to be better, to recognize people,” Ausmus said. “I see women in leadership roles now. I’m one of three deputy chiefs.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ausmus said other women have had success at OPD, and are part of the DEA task force, SWAT teams and investigations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The officers here – man, woman, color, not color, it doesn’t matter. All they want to know is, Are you going to do your job?”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>What women bring\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Supporters of increasing the number of women in policing emphasize the different skills they bring to the job.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There is a strong and growing body of scientific evidence that shows that there’s a unique value in how women police,” McGough said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They use less force and excessive force,” she said. “They get better outcomes for crime victims, especially gender-based violence. They’re named in community complaints and lawsuits proportionally less often. They’re perceived as more trustworthy by diverse communities and especially communities who are impacted most by police activities.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12058735\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12058735\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/250930_WOMENINLAWENFORCEMENT_00759_TV-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/250930_WOMENINLAWENFORCEMENT_00759_TV-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/250930_WOMENINLAWENFORCEMENT_00759_TV-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/250930_WOMENINLAWENFORCEMENT_00759_TV-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Students’ duty belts lay on the floor during a class for the police academy at the Oakland Police Department on Sept. 30, 2025. \u003ccite>(Tâm Vũ/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Bill Terrill, professor in the School of Criminology and Criminal Justice at Arizona State University, said that while the majority of research tends to reflect those positive outcomes, data on the use of force and gender is somewhat more complicated.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One study that Terrill co-authored found women and men used physical force similarly, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>“\u003c/strong>When we looked at it,” Terrill said, “whether you’re male or female, if you’re faced with a physical threat, you’re going to use physical force. Gender doesn’t come into play.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some of 30×30’s recommended actions for police departments have to do with ensuring hiring assessments reflect the knowledge, skills, abilities and experiences required to be an effective officer.[aside postID=news_12057782 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/250428-OPD-FILE-MD-01-KQED-1-1020x680.jpg']“We’re really confident that as agencies do that, they’ll naturally see an increase in the number of women who are drawn to the profession and the number of women who pass assessments,” McGough said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to 30×30, agencies that reported recruitment data to the organization over two years achieved, on average, a 28% increase in the representation of women in recruit classes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Oakland, the percentage of women who have completed police academies in recent years has varied from class to class, with women making up as little as 5%, and as much as 25% of recruit graduates since December 2021.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While OPD’s academies have funding to train at least 33 recruits, recent classes have consistently graduated fewer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12057073/oakland-naacp-partners-with-city-and-police-to-recruit-new-officers\">new task force\u003c/a> launched by Mayor Barbara Lee’s office is hoping to address that.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At a September press conference, Rev. Damita Davis-Howard, Lee’s director of public safety, stood alongside other members of the newly formed task force, including representatives of the Oakland NAACP and City Councilmember Charlene Wang.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12058734\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12058734\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/250930_WOMENINLAWENFORCEMENT_00720_TV-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/250930_WOMENINLAWENFORCEMENT_00720_TV-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/250930_WOMENINLAWENFORCEMENT_00720_TV-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/250930_WOMENINLAWENFORCEMENT_00720_TV-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Kimberly Galvan (center) practices a drill during a class for the police academy at the Oakland Police Department on Sept. 30, 2025. \u003ccite>(Tâm Vũ/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Not only do we want to recruit folks from our own neighborhoods, from our fair city, Oakland, we also want to make a special effort for dispatchers, but also women, women of color,” Davis-Howard said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In addition to women and native Oaklanders, the task force also wants to attract members of the LGBTQ community, Wang said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Davis-Howard told KQED in an interview that the task force’s initial focus has been on increasing the number of people who sign up for, and finish, Oakland’s police academies, and that it plans to shift its focus to officer retention next.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The task force, she said, is not limiting its recruitment efforts to any one group.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>“\u003c/strong>I think that if you do it for everybody, you’re going to reach that 30 by 30, right? Because I believe that all demographics are capable of doing this job,” Davis-Howard said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12064196\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12064196\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/250930_womeninlawenforcement_00777_TV_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/250930_womeninlawenforcement_00777_TV_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/250930_womeninlawenforcement_00777_TV_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/250930_womeninlawenforcement_00777_TV_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Students observe instructors demonstrating an exercise during a class for the police academy at the Oakland Police Department on Sept. 30, 2025. \u003ccite>(Tâm Vũ/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“We are looking at the whole package, from beginning to end. I’ve had folks call, understanding the mayor’s initiative to enhance recruitment, and say, ‘Hey, I’ve got this program over here. I could help folks get physically fit for the academy.’ Or another program that says, ‘Hey, we can offer support to folks who are in the academy,’” she said. “What we want to do is make the extra effort to actually get folks in, prepared, stay — and stay here in Oakland.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Other Bay Area agencies have also struggled to recruit and retain enough officers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Law enforcement is upside down right now. We have more vacancies than we have quality applicants,” said Piedmont Police Capt. Chris Monahan.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Monahan surveyed nearly 600 female officers for his doctoral research. Among the biggest challenges they reported were perceptions that policing is a man’s world and balancing work with family life.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12064194\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12064194\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/250911-LivermoreFile-11-BL_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/250911-LivermoreFile-11-BL_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/250911-LivermoreFile-11-BL_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/250911-LivermoreFile-11-BL_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A police van with the insignia for multiple Bay Area police departments sits outside the Livermore Police Department on Sept. 11, 2025. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Monahan said he brought a recruitment booth to a UC Berkeley women’s basketball game to try to find women interested in policing. It didn’t yield high results. The department may also try recruiting at Valkyries’ games next season.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Monahan said he has been so desperate to find candidates that he recruited his dog groomer and the boyfriend of a woman whose mother keeps a horse on his property.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When you’re down 20, 30 people, your drive is not women, women, woman — or man, man, man, for that matter,” Monahan said. “Your drive is candidate, candidate, candidate. Who can I find? Who can get through a background? Who can get through a police academy? Who can go through a field training program? Who can work on midnights for several years before they become a detective or a motor officer or a SWAT operator or whatever the case may be.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Does Piedmont support 30×30? Absolutely. Is it the end-all, be-all of my life? It can’t be.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Refilling the pipeline\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>As Lee’s task force tries to refill OPD’s ranks, a pipeline from Merritt College that has been dormant since 2023 is gearing up to restart in the spring.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The pipeline, or pre-academy, is designed to expose students to the training that takes place in the police academy, said Mildred Oliver, a retired OPD sergeant and co-chair of Merritt’s Administration of Justice program.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Students receive training in areas where many recruits fail out of the academy, such as driving, shooting and defensive tactics, Oliver said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12064195\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12064195\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/250930_womeninlawenforcement_00434_TV_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/250930_womeninlawenforcement_00434_TV_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/250930_womeninlawenforcement_00434_TV_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/250930_womeninlawenforcement_00434_TV_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Recruits warm up during a class for the police academy at the Oakland Police Department on Sept. 30, 2025. \u003ccite>(Tâm Vũ/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>As a recruit herself in the late ’90s, Oliver recalled a female captain in OPD’s training division who held meetings just for female trainees.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That made a huge difference,” Oliver said. “Because she understood that we were dealing with other stressors than our male counterparts.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s a male-dominated field and a lot of women either come in feeling like they are not valued or not strong enough to do the job or they may feel like they have to prove themselves and sometimes go overboard,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oliver retired from OPD in 2019. That year, she sued the department alleging race and gender discrimination, a hostile work environment and retaliation in connection with the department’s handling of the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11757557/oakland-releases-heavily-redacted-records-that-shed-light-raise-questions-on-sex-abuse-case\">Celeste Guap scandal\u003c/a>, in which multiple Bay Area officers were accused of exploiting and having sex with an underage girl. Oliver was assigned to investigate as a member of the Internal Affairs Division.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12065111\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12065111\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2030/11/250930_womeninlawenforcement_00122_TV_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2030/11/250930_womeninlawenforcement_00122_TV_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2030/11/250930_womeninlawenforcement_00122_TV_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2030/11/250930_womeninlawenforcement_00122_TV_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Students observe instructors demonstrating an exercise during a class for the police academy at the Oakland Police Department on Sept. 30, 2025. \u003ccite>(Tâm Vũ/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“The OPD made Sgt. Oliver its scapegoat by removing her from the investigation, blaming her for its limitations, and launching a course of conduct to harass and retaliate against her,” an amended complaint in the lawsuit reads.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The city awarded Oliver a $50,000 settlement last year. After attorneys’ fees, she said, she “didn’t see a dime.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Oliver said she’s not bitter. Today, she’s doing the work she was called to, but on her own terms, she said. And she still encourages students to pursue jobs with OPD and other agencies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12065125\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 1080px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12065125 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/573936796_1232690352235524_1225952375076521984_n.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1080\" height=\"1080\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/573936796_1232690352235524_1225952375076521984_n.jpg 1080w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/573936796_1232690352235524_1225952375076521984_n-160x160.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1080px) 100vw, 1080px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A flyer promoting OPD’s efforts to recruit women as part of the 30×30 initiative. \u003ccite>(Oakland Police Department via Facebook)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“I’m still gung-ho about getting them into the career because it’s a great career,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When it comes to recruiting and retaining women, Dixon believes OPD could do more by inviting women to tour the department and meet female officers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s got to start at the top,” Dixon said. “Do you really want more women, or are you just going along with the fad because it’s 30-30?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She believes the department should begin working with young people before they’re actually in the academy, she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>“\u003c/strong>Right now, you got one or two women in the academy. Maybe one of them will make it, maybe none of them will make it,” Dixon said. “Why are you hiring them, and they’re not making it? Do you really want them? Or do you want to just say, well, we hired two, but neither one of them made it. Why didn’t they make it?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The profession, she said, still isn’t doing enough to show women they belong.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Why are we at this place now? Why are we here? Because of the work we didn’t do? And the work that we continue not to do,” Dixon said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In an interview with KQED just outside the room, Galvan recalled a male officer who had a positive influence on her growing up in Oakland. But, she said, she rarely encountered women in law enforcement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I never had any female police officer role models,” Galvan, 32, said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As an adult, she was drawn to public service and became an OPD dispatcher. As she answered 911 calls and heard female officers responding, it occurred to her: Why not become a police officer herself?\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12058730\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12058730\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/250930_WOMENINLAWENFORCEMENT_00039_TV-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/250930_WOMENINLAWENFORCEMENT_00039_TV-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/250930_WOMENINLAWENFORCEMENT_00039_TV-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/250930_WOMENINLAWENFORCEMENT_00039_TV-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Kimberly Galvan warms up during a class for the police academy at the Oakland Police Department on Sept. 30, 2025. \u003ccite>(Tâm Vũ/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“It inspired me, honestly, to want to take that next step in doing this,” Galvan said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Six weeks after her interview with KQED, however, Galvan was no longer in the academy. A spokesperson for the department said she did not pass one of the training courses required.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The class, which started with 26 recruits, is now down to 14, including one woman.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For her part, Galvan plans to join the 196th academy, which begins today, the spokesperson said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This will be her third attempt.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Oakland is among a growing number of law enforcement agencies that have pledged to boost the number of women in their ranks. The effort is spearheaded by the 30×30 initiative, which aims to have women make up 30% of police recruits nationwide by the year 2030. More than 400 agencies have signed the 30×30\u003ca href=\"https://30x30initiative.org/the-30x30-pledge/\"> pledge\u003c/a>, committing to reporting data on staffing, rooting out discrimination and examining procedures for hiring and promotion.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But many agencies, including OPD, have struggled to meet that goal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2021, when OPD signed on to 30×30, 15% of the department’s officers were women.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Four years later, that number remains largely unchanged.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The department has created a lactation space and accompanying policy and is developing workshops for women interested in OPD jobs, said Sgt. Michael Romans-Rowe, who oversees the agency’s Background and Recruiting Unit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re looking at panels that will have command staff, officers, retirees that are able to bring their perspective to a woman that’s interested in joining law enforcement and specifically with our agency,” Romans-Rowe said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12058740\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12058740\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/250930_WOMENINLAWENFORCEMENT_01271_TV-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/250930_WOMENINLAWENFORCEMENT_01271_TV-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/250930_WOMENINLAWENFORCEMENT_01271_TV-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/250930_WOMENINLAWENFORCEMENT_01271_TV-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Michael J. Romans-Rowe, a police officer, poses for a portrait at the Oakland Police Department on Sept. 30, 2025. \u003ccite>(Tâm Vũ/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, the department is facing a worsening staffing crisis.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As of Nov. 21, OPD had 625 officers. With 102 on some form of leave — military, medical or administrative — that means 523 officers are actively working. Meanwhile, five to six officers on average leave OPD each month, according to the department.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>An \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/26209764-pfm-llc-opd-staffing-study/\">independent firm recommended\u003c/a> in April that Oakland have 877 police officers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It is likely that OPD’s percentage of female officers has remained relatively unchanged [due] to factors such as natural attrition, the budgeted reduction in overall sworn staffing levels, and the recent hiring freeze,” Romans-Rowe said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oakland isn’t alone. A 2019 study found 63% of surveyed police departments reported receiving fewer applications for sworn positions than in prior years. San Francisco’s police and sheriff’s departments are down 500 and 161 officers, respectively. The Alameda County Sheriff’s Office has nearly 200 vacancies, and Santa Clara County’s sheriff’s office is short 138 officers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In those first couple of years after the police murder of George Floyd, the profession was in crisis in a lot of ways. In some ways, I think, it continues to be,” said Maureen McGough, founder of the 30×30 initiative. “30×30 offers a promising and somewhat different path towards a partial solution for some of those problems.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12058738\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12058738\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/250930_WOMENINLAWENFORCEMENT_01098_TV-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/250930_WOMENINLAWENFORCEMENT_01098_TV-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/250930_WOMENINLAWENFORCEMENT_01098_TV-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/250930_WOMENINLAWENFORCEMENT_01098_TV-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The recruitment training unit can be found at the Oakland Police Department on Sept. 30, 2025. \u003ccite>(Tâm Vũ/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>For decades, McGough said, police departments tended to focus their recruiting on candidates with military backgrounds or criminal justice degrees.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Those are important populations. But there are other populations that are service-oriented with empathy and a desire to serve their community and great interpersonal skills — things that we know make good officers,” McGough said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, experts like Mary Dodge, professor of criminal justice at the University of Colorado, Denver, say that despite efforts to change the status quo, many agencies have struggled to boost the number of women in their ranks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m not at all surprised by the 15% number,” Dodge said about Oakland’s level of female staffing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Despite all the research we have and everything that says that women make good officers — they can do the job as well as men — nothing changes,” she said. “You really have to, at some level, attribute that to this hyper-masculine environment that they’re entering, even in 2025.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>‘You belong in business suits and heels’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>When Margaret Dixon was a young mother in 1980, she saw an advertisement featuring a female police officer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’ll never forget,” she recalled. “It said, ‘Woman. Wife. Cop.’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I fit all those categories,” Dixon said. “I was a woman, I was a wife. I was athletic. So I was like, ‘Wow, let me just try this.’ And I’m glad I did. It’s the best decision I could have made.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12063250\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12063250\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/251103-WOMENINLAWENFORCEMENT00562_TV-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/251103-WOMENINLAWENFORCEMENT00562_TV-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/251103-WOMENINLAWENFORCEMENT00562_TV-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/251103-WOMENINLAWENFORCEMENT00562_TV-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Margaret Dixon, a retired Oakland police officer who works with students at Merritt College, poses for a portrait at Merritt College in Oakland on Nov. 3, 2025. \u003ccite>(Tâm Vũ/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Dixon enrolled in Oakland’s police academy and worked for the department for 25 years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On a recent fall afternoon, she walked through a Merritt College classroom where she now advises the school’s Administration of Justice program, mentoring young women interested in careers in policing, corrections, and other justice-related fields.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That’s why I’m so positive about really trying to get other women to do it, because I think if they get into it and see what they can bring to the job, they’ll be happy that they did,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>An Oakland Office of the Inspector General report tracking OPD police academies and field training found the percentage of female recruits remained unchanged between 2019 and 2022.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dixon believes there needs to be more female police officers so women see the job as something they can do.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There are girls, young ladies, that want to do the work, but they don’t feel welcome because all they see is men,” Dixon said. “Women have to tell other women that — you can do this job.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12064208\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12064208\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/251103-womeninlawenforcement00527_TV_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/251103-womeninlawenforcement00527_TV_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/251103-womeninlawenforcement00527_TV_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/251103-womeninlawenforcement00527_TV_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Veronica (who did not share her last name for privacy reasons), a student at Merritt College who is studying to apply to the Oakland Police Academy, sits on a bench at Merritt College in Oakland on Nov. 3, 2025. \u003ccite>(Tâm Vũ/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>One of Dixon’s students, Veronica, recently took the Berkeley Police Department’s physical agility test but didn’t pass. KQED is not publishing her last name so she can speak candidly about the hiring process without harming her job prospects.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The image of law enforcement doesn’t look like me. It doesn’t look like a single mom,” Veronica said. “It looks like a huge, masculine man.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Veronica had always wanted to be a homicide detective, but when she started pursuing the career, she felt discouraged.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I even have male family members who have told me, like, you won’t be able to do it,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lack of support from her community has made breaking into such a male-dominated field harder, she said. It has felt like she’s doing it on her own.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12058732\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12058732\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/250930_WOMENINLAWENFORCEMENT_00606_TV-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/250930_WOMENINLAWENFORCEMENT_00606_TV-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/250930_WOMENINLAWENFORCEMENT_00606_TV-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/250930_WOMENINLAWENFORCEMENT_00606_TV-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">An instructor demonstrates a drill during a class for the police academy at the Oakland Police Department on Sept. 30, 2025. \u003ccite>(Tâm Vũ/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“You go to a lot of these events and a lot of these training exercises, you look around and it’s like you’re one of maybe two [women], and it’s scary. It’s really intimidating,” Veronica said. “And you’re looking at them like, you know, maybe they were right. Maybe I don’t belong here. Maybe I should go get that desk job they told me to get. Oh, ‘You belong in business suits and heels.’ And it’s like, that’s not what I want to do.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As she prepares physically and mentally to retake the test and apply to other academies, support from people like Dixon has helped, Veronica said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I want to see women because it makes us feel more able. Like I’m capable of the job. I see you’re here.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That means I can do it,” she said. “You have to stay encouraged.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>OPD Deputy Chief of Police Lisa Ausmus said she thinks the department has evolved since she first joined in 2000.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’ve just learned as a department to be better, to recognize people,” Ausmus said. “I see women in leadership roles now. I’m one of three deputy chiefs.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ausmus said other women have had success at OPD, and are part of the DEA task force, SWAT teams and investigations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The officers here – man, woman, color, not color, it doesn’t matter. All they want to know is, Are you going to do your job?”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>What women bring\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Supporters of increasing the number of women in policing emphasize the different skills they bring to the job.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There is a strong and growing body of scientific evidence that shows that there’s a unique value in how women police,” McGough said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They use less force and excessive force,” she said. “They get better outcomes for crime victims, especially gender-based violence. They’re named in community complaints and lawsuits proportionally less often. They’re perceived as more trustworthy by diverse communities and especially communities who are impacted most by police activities.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12058735\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12058735\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/250930_WOMENINLAWENFORCEMENT_00759_TV-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/250930_WOMENINLAWENFORCEMENT_00759_TV-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/250930_WOMENINLAWENFORCEMENT_00759_TV-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/250930_WOMENINLAWENFORCEMENT_00759_TV-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Students’ duty belts lay on the floor during a class for the police academy at the Oakland Police Department on Sept. 30, 2025. \u003ccite>(Tâm Vũ/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Bill Terrill, professor in the School of Criminology and Criminal Justice at Arizona State University, said that while the majority of research tends to reflect those positive outcomes, data on the use of force and gender is somewhat more complicated.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One study that Terrill co-authored found women and men used physical force similarly, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>“\u003c/strong>When we looked at it,” Terrill said, “whether you’re male or female, if you’re faced with a physical threat, you’re going to use physical force. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>“We’re really confident that as agencies do that, they’ll naturally see an increase in the number of women who are drawn to the profession and the number of women who pass assessments,” McGough said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to 30×30, agencies that reported recruitment data to the organization over two years achieved, on average, a 28% increase in the representation of women in recruit classes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Oakland, the percentage of women who have completed police academies in recent years has varied from class to class, with women making up as little as 5%, and as much as 25% of recruit graduates since December 2021.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While OPD’s academies have funding to train at least 33 recruits, recent classes have consistently graduated fewer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12057073/oakland-naacp-partners-with-city-and-police-to-recruit-new-officers\">new task force\u003c/a> launched by Mayor Barbara Lee’s office is hoping to address that.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At a September press conference, Rev. Damita Davis-Howard, Lee’s director of public safety, stood alongside other members of the newly formed task force, including representatives of the Oakland NAACP and City Councilmember Charlene Wang.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12058734\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12058734\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/250930_WOMENINLAWENFORCEMENT_00720_TV-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/250930_WOMENINLAWENFORCEMENT_00720_TV-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/250930_WOMENINLAWENFORCEMENT_00720_TV-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/250930_WOMENINLAWENFORCEMENT_00720_TV-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Kimberly Galvan (center) practices a drill during a class for the police academy at the Oakland Police Department on Sept. 30, 2025. \u003ccite>(Tâm Vũ/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Not only do we want to recruit folks from our own neighborhoods, from our fair city, Oakland, we also want to make a special effort for dispatchers, but also women, women of color,” Davis-Howard said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In addition to women and native Oaklanders, the task force also wants to attract members of the LGBTQ community, Wang said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Davis-Howard told KQED in an interview that the task force’s initial focus has been on increasing the number of people who sign up for, and finish, Oakland’s police academies, and that it plans to shift its focus to officer retention next.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The task force, she said, is not limiting its recruitment efforts to any one group.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>“\u003c/strong>I think that if you do it for everybody, you’re going to reach that 30 by 30, right? Because I believe that all demographics are capable of doing this job,” Davis-Howard said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12064196\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12064196\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/250930_womeninlawenforcement_00777_TV_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/250930_womeninlawenforcement_00777_TV_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/250930_womeninlawenforcement_00777_TV_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/250930_womeninlawenforcement_00777_TV_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Students observe instructors demonstrating an exercise during a class for the police academy at the Oakland Police Department on Sept. 30, 2025. \u003ccite>(Tâm Vũ/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“We are looking at the whole package, from beginning to end. I’ve had folks call, understanding the mayor’s initiative to enhance recruitment, and say, ‘Hey, I’ve got this program over here. I could help folks get physically fit for the academy.’ Or another program that says, ‘Hey, we can offer support to folks who are in the academy,’” she said. “What we want to do is make the extra effort to actually get folks in, prepared, stay — and stay here in Oakland.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Other Bay Area agencies have also struggled to recruit and retain enough officers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Law enforcement is upside down right now. We have more vacancies than we have quality applicants,” said Piedmont Police Capt. Chris Monahan.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Monahan surveyed nearly 600 female officers for his doctoral research. Among the biggest challenges they reported were perceptions that policing is a man’s world and balancing work with family life.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12064194\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12064194\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/250911-LivermoreFile-11-BL_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/250911-LivermoreFile-11-BL_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/250911-LivermoreFile-11-BL_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/250911-LivermoreFile-11-BL_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A police van with the insignia for multiple Bay Area police departments sits outside the Livermore Police Department on Sept. 11, 2025. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Monahan said he brought a recruitment booth to a UC Berkeley women’s basketball game to try to find women interested in policing. It didn’t yield high results. The department may also try recruiting at Valkyries’ games next season.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Monahan said he has been so desperate to find candidates that he recruited his dog groomer and the boyfriend of a woman whose mother keeps a horse on his property.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When you’re down 20, 30 people, your drive is not women, women, woman — or man, man, man, for that matter,” Monahan said. “Your drive is candidate, candidate, candidate. Who can I find? Who can get through a background? Who can get through a police academy? Who can go through a field training program? Who can work on midnights for several years before they become a detective or a motor officer or a SWAT operator or whatever the case may be.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Does Piedmont support 30×30? Absolutely. Is it the end-all, be-all of my life? It can’t be.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Refilling the pipeline\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>As Lee’s task force tries to refill OPD’s ranks, a pipeline from Merritt College that has been dormant since 2023 is gearing up to restart in the spring.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The pipeline, or pre-academy, is designed to expose students to the training that takes place in the police academy, said Mildred Oliver, a retired OPD sergeant and co-chair of Merritt’s Administration of Justice program.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Students receive training in areas where many recruits fail out of the academy, such as driving, shooting and defensive tactics, Oliver said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12064195\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12064195\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/250930_womeninlawenforcement_00434_TV_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/250930_womeninlawenforcement_00434_TV_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/250930_womeninlawenforcement_00434_TV_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/250930_womeninlawenforcement_00434_TV_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Recruits warm up during a class for the police academy at the Oakland Police Department on Sept. 30, 2025. \u003ccite>(Tâm Vũ/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>As a recruit herself in the late ’90s, Oliver recalled a female captain in OPD’s training division who held meetings just for female trainees.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That made a huge difference,” Oliver said. “Because she understood that we were dealing with other stressors than our male counterparts.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s a male-dominated field and a lot of women either come in feeling like they are not valued or not strong enough to do the job or they may feel like they have to prove themselves and sometimes go overboard,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oliver retired from OPD in 2019. That year, she sued the department alleging race and gender discrimination, a hostile work environment and retaliation in connection with the department’s handling of the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11757557/oakland-releases-heavily-redacted-records-that-shed-light-raise-questions-on-sex-abuse-case\">Celeste Guap scandal\u003c/a>, in which multiple Bay Area officers were accused of exploiting and having sex with an underage girl. Oliver was assigned to investigate as a member of the Internal Affairs Division.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12065111\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12065111\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2030/11/250930_womeninlawenforcement_00122_TV_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2030/11/250930_womeninlawenforcement_00122_TV_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2030/11/250930_womeninlawenforcement_00122_TV_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2030/11/250930_womeninlawenforcement_00122_TV_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Students observe instructors demonstrating an exercise during a class for the police academy at the Oakland Police Department on Sept. 30, 2025. \u003ccite>(Tâm Vũ/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“The OPD made Sgt. Oliver its scapegoat by removing her from the investigation, blaming her for its limitations, and launching a course of conduct to harass and retaliate against her,” an amended complaint in the lawsuit reads.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The city awarded Oliver a $50,000 settlement last year. After attorneys’ fees, she said, she “didn’t see a dime.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Oliver said she’s not bitter. Today, she’s doing the work she was called to, but on her own terms, she said. And she still encourages students to pursue jobs with OPD and other agencies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12065125\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 1080px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12065125 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/573936796_1232690352235524_1225952375076521984_n.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1080\" height=\"1080\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/573936796_1232690352235524_1225952375076521984_n.jpg 1080w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/573936796_1232690352235524_1225952375076521984_n-160x160.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1080px) 100vw, 1080px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A flyer promoting OPD’s efforts to recruit women as part of the 30×30 initiative. \u003ccite>(Oakland Police Department via Facebook)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“I’m still gung-ho about getting them into the career because it’s a great career,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When it comes to recruiting and retaining women, Dixon believes OPD could do more by inviting women to tour the department and meet female officers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s got to start at the top,” Dixon said. “Do you really want more women, or are you just going along with the fad because it’s 30-30?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She believes the department should begin working with young people before they’re actually in the academy, she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>“\u003c/strong>Right now, you got one or two women in the academy. Maybe one of them will make it, maybe none of them will make it,” Dixon said. “Why are you hiring them, and they’re not making it? Do you really want them? Or do you want to just say, well, we hired two, but neither one of them made it. Why didn’t they make it?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The profession, she said, still isn’t doing enough to show women they belong.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Why are we at this place now? Why are we here? Because of the work we didn’t do? And the work that we continue not to do,” Dixon said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>Cedric Irving Jr., the man accused of fatally shooting longtime \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12064112/suspect-arrested-in-shooting-of-oakland-laney-college-coach-john-beam\">Laney College football coach John Beam\u003c/a> last week in Oakland, was charged with murder on Monday by Alameda County prosecutors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Combined with a gun enhancement, Irving, 27, could face 50 years to life in prison if convicted. He has no criminal record, prosecutors said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Beam was shot in the head in the campus’ Laney Field House on Thursday afternoon and rushed to the hospital as police \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12064033/oakland-laney-college-shooting-sends-athletic-staff-member-to-hospital\">locked down the campus\u003c/a> to investigate. He died Friday morning.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After officers reviewed surveillance footage and identified a potential suspect, Irving was arrested at the San Leandro BART station on Friday morning with a handgun in one of his bags, according to a declaration of probable cause filed by Oakland police. In an interview, Irving admitted to shooting Beam with the gun, police said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Police have not disclosed a potential motive for the shooting, but they said Beam and Irving knew each other, although they did not have a close relationship.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Irving is being held without bail and scheduled to be arraigned Tuesday morning at the Wiley W. Manuel Courthouse in Oakland.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12064167\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12064167\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/LaneyCollegeGetty3.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1334\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/LaneyCollegeGetty3.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/LaneyCollegeGetty3-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/LaneyCollegeGetty3-1536x1025.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Crime scene tape at Laney College in Oakland, California, on Thursday, Nov. 13, 2025. The school was placed on lockdown after an individual was shot on campus, according to police. \u003ccite>(Santiago Mejia/San Francisco Chronicle via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Beam, 66, spent decades coaching football in Oakland, where he led successful programs at both Skyline High School and Laney College. He and the Laney Eagles were featured in the fifth and final season of Netflix’s \u003cem>Last Chance U\u003c/em>, a docuseries that followed three junior college football programs across the country. In 2018, he guided the Eagles to a state championship and a No. 1 ranking in the country.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last year, Beam stepped down as Laney’s football coach but remained on staff as athletic director.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Coach Beam’s legacy isn’t measured in championships or statistics,” Oakland Mayor Barbara Lee said in a statement on Friday. “It’s measured in the thousands of young people he believed in, mentored, and refused to abandon, including my nephew, while at Skyline High School. He gave Oakland’s youth their best chance, and he never stopped fighting for them.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At a Monday afternoon press conference, District Attorney Ursula Jones Dickson also announced that her office would reinstitute a policy of seeking mandatory minimum sentences for gun possession convictions.[aside postID=news_12064112 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/LaneyCollegeGetty2.jpg']She said that policy was last in place under Nancy O’Malley, who led the office before Pamela Price, who was recalled last year. Price had run on a progressive platform that included reducing the use of sentencing enhancements.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“My goal is to try to make people aware that there is absolutely some accountability for carrying a gun in Oakland,” Jones Dickson said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Laney College shooting was the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12064018/oakland-violence-prevention-program-at-risk-as-skyline-high-shooting-renews-urgency\">second at an Oakland school\u003c/a> in two days. On Wednesday afternoon, a student was \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12063886/at-least-1-person-shot-at-oaklands-skyline-high-school\">shot and injured\u003c/a> at Skyline High, and two minors were arrested.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When we are having two shootings in one week, back to back, two days in a row, on campuses in Oakland, we need to start having a conversation about what safety looks like in schools,” Jones Dickson said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some Skyline students were on a field trip to Laney College the day that Beam was shot. That meant they were locked down for shootings on back-to-back days, Jones Dickson said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That’s unacceptable that we have children in our community [for whom] now this is the norm, two days in a row, that they’re locked down for gun violence on a campus. I’m not good with that,” she said. “So, whatever it looks like, we need to start having those conversations; we should be doing that now.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>KQED’s \u003c/em>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/author/shossaini\">\u003cem>Sara Hossaini\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003cem> contributed to this report.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cp>After a \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12063886/at-least-1-person-shot-at-oaklands-skyline-high-school\">student was shot at an Oakland high school this week\u003c/a>, school district leaders are calling for more violence-prevention resources on campuses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But a key program aimed at reducing school-site violence could sunset this spring as city funding lapses and the Oakland Unified School District looks to \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12062643/oakland-unified-wins-budget-approval-but-faces-dire-warning-on-financial-future\">cut $100 million from its budget\u003c/a> amid a major fiscal crisis.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Moments like this are when our school partners and our students expect us to show up,” said Joseph Griffin, the executive director of the nonprofit Youth ALIVE!, which has partnered with the Oakland Unified School District on its School Violence Intervention and Prevention program since 2022.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The only way we can show up is if we know we have the resources and the funding to keep these programs going,” he told KQED on Friday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When gunfire shook Skyline High School’s campus on Wednesday afternoon, a violence interruptor was there.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The school-based staffers identify and proactively mediate conflicts between students and intervene when tensions escalate. They’ve been embedded at OUSD high schools since 2023 through a pilot program with the city’s Department of Violence Prevention, launched to reduce high rates of violence on the sites.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12063888\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12063888\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/006_Oakland_SkylineHSFootballPractice_02032021_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/006_Oakland_SkylineHSFootballPractice_02032021_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/006_Oakland_SkylineHSFootballPractice_02032021_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/006_Oakland_SkylineHSFootballPractice_02032021_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A football practice at Skyline High School on Feb. 3, 2021. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>During the 2021-2022 school year, \u003ca href=\"https://oakland.granicus.com/player/clip/6096?view_id=2&redirect=true\">more than 670 OUSD high school students\u003c/a> were suspended for physical violence. In recent years, there have been at least six shootings at Oakland schools, including three on Skyline’s campus.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2023, three minors were arrested on assault and firearm charges in connection with another \u003ca href=\"https://www.nbcbayarea.com/news/local/alameda-county-da-charges-oakland-skyline-high-school-shooting/3319431/\">shooting at the school\u003c/a> that resulted in no injuries. The following year, three people were injured in a shooting \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11987651/multiple-suspects-sought-after-shooting-injures-2-at-oakland-graduation\">just after the school’s graduation ceremony\u003c/a>. And on Wednesday, a student was shot in the bathroom of a building on campus, according to school board member Mike Hutchinson.[aside postID=news_12063886 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/251112-SKYLINE-HIGH-SHOOTING-MD-01-KQED.jpg']The victim was taken to a local hospital with non-life-threatening injuries, and two minors were taken into custody, according to Oakland Police. Police said two firearms were recovered at the scene.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The role that violence interrupters play is to focus on the time immediately before and after an incident of violence,” Griffin said. “We can understand when tensions are getting high and can get in front of that … and in the case when there is violence, we can be there in the immediate aftermath to try to bring down the tensions to make sure that retaliation doesn’t occur.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The School Violence Intervention and Prevention program evolved out of a partnership between the district, the city and local nonprofits to bring intervention and gender-based violence workers and life coaches into schools.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Initially, violence interrupters rotated across multiple campuses, but in fall of 2023, they were assigned at seven high schools and continuing schools throughout the district, and have expanded to more sites, including Skyline.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During the program’s first year, OUSD saw a \u003ca href=\"https://oakland.granicus.com/player/clip/6096?view_id=2&redirect=true\">10% reduction\u003c/a> in suspensions for physical violence across its high schools. In 2024, interrupters mediated more than 260 conflicts, according to Griffin.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12043210\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12043210\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250428-OUSD-OFFICE-FILE-MD-04_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250428-OUSD-OFFICE-FILE-MD-04_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250428-OUSD-OFFICE-FILE-MD-04_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250428-OUSD-OFFICE-FILE-MD-04_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Oakland Unified School District Offices in Oakland on April 28, 2025. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>When violence occurs on campus, Griffin said, interrupters help ensure conflicts don’t lead to retaliation and identify whether it might spill off campus. He said in the hours after the shooting at Skyline on Wednesday, other Youth ALIVE! interruptors working throughout the city came to the school site to provide support.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is the moment where we could start to coordinate between our school-based programs and our community-based programs,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hutchinson said this week’s shooting underscores a need to expand the program — not let it expire when funding dries up this spring.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The city allocated $5.4 million to the program in its 2023-2025 budget, and the district also received a nearly $1 million grant from the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention to fund three additional interrupters for three years.[aside postID=news_12059238 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250603-OUSD-MD-01-KQED-1020x680.jpg']Additional funding has been allocated for 2025-2026, but there are no plans to continue funding the positions after this school year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Earlier this month, Superintendent Denise Saddler \u003ca href=\"https://www.ousd.org/communications-public-affairs/newsroom/news/~board/ousd-news/post/a-difficult-conversation-about-our-budgetand-our-future\">warned of a dire budget crisis\u003c/a>, and next week, OUSD staff is expected to present scenarios that strip $100 million from the district’s budget next year to avoid insolvency.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m worried that we can even continue them, let alone have the resources to expand those programs at Skyline, where there’s an obvious need for some sort of work to be done,” Hutchinson said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oakland teacher’s union president Kampala Taiz-Rancifer said the union has been advocating for the continuation of violence-prevention resources such as interrupters, along with on-site psychologists and other staff who help students feel safe and connected to campus.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There is just a systemic disinvestment in resources in Oakland schools in general, but specifically at Skyline High School,” she said. “When staffing is cut, when mental health supports are inadequate, campuses are left without the resources that they need to help students do their best. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>The victim was taken to a local hospital with non-life-threatening injuries, and two minors were taken into custody, according to Oakland Police. Police said two firearms were recovered at the scene.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The role that violence interrupters play is to focus on the time immediately before and after an incident of violence,” Griffin said. “We can understand when tensions are getting high and can get in front of that … and in the case when there is violence, we can be there in the immediate aftermath to try to bring down the tensions to make sure that retaliation doesn’t occur.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The School Violence Intervention and Prevention program evolved out of a partnership between the district, the city and local nonprofits to bring intervention and gender-based violence workers and life coaches into schools.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Initially, violence interrupters rotated across multiple campuses, but in fall of 2023, they were assigned at seven high schools and continuing schools throughout the district, and have expanded to more sites, including Skyline.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During the program’s first year, OUSD saw a \u003ca href=\"https://oakland.granicus.com/player/clip/6096?view_id=2&redirect=true\">10% reduction\u003c/a> in suspensions for physical violence across its high schools. In 2024, interrupters mediated more than 260 conflicts, according to Griffin.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12043210\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12043210\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250428-OUSD-OFFICE-FILE-MD-04_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250428-OUSD-OFFICE-FILE-MD-04_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250428-OUSD-OFFICE-FILE-MD-04_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250428-OUSD-OFFICE-FILE-MD-04_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Oakland Unified School District Offices in Oakland on April 28, 2025. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>When violence occurs on campus, Griffin said, interrupters help ensure conflicts don’t lead to retaliation and identify whether it might spill off campus. He said in the hours after the shooting at Skyline on Wednesday, other Youth ALIVE! interruptors working throughout the city came to the school site to provide support.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is the moment where we could start to coordinate between our school-based programs and our community-based programs,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hutchinson said this week’s shooting underscores a need to expand the program — not let it expire when funding dries up this spring.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The city allocated $5.4 million to the program in its 2023-2025 budget, and the district also received a nearly $1 million grant from the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention to fund three additional interrupters for three years.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>John Beam, the Laney College athletic director and legendary football coach with decades of experience in \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/oakland\">Oakland\u003c/a>, died Friday morning after \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12064033/oakland-laney-college-shooting-sends-athletic-staff-member-to-hospital\">being shot on campus\u003c/a>, police said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cedric Irving, 27, was arrested at a BART station early Friday on suspicion of carrying out the shooting, police said in a noon news conference. A weapon has been recovered, and police plan to present the case to the Alameda County district attorney’s office on Friday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to police, Beam and Irving knew each other but did not have a close relationship. Irving played high school football in Oakland, but not for Beam or Laney College, said interim Police Chief James Beere, who was named OPD’s temporary leader Friday afternoon.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Authorities did not disclose a motive for the shooting because Irving has not been charged yet, but they said it was a targeted incident.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During the press conference, Piedmont Police Chief Frederick Shavies called Beam, 66, an “incredible human being” and mentor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I lost my father when I was in high school, and Coach has — since I was 15, 16, 17 years old — always been there for me, has always reached out to me,” he said. “And it’s not just me … [it’s also] hundreds of individuals that were there last night” at a hospital vigil.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12064167\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12064167\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/LaneyCollegeGetty3.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1334\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/LaneyCollegeGetty3.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/LaneyCollegeGetty3-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/LaneyCollegeGetty3-1536x1025.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Crime scene tape at Laney College in Oakland, California, on Thursday, Nov. 13, 2025. The school was placed on lockdown after an individual was shot on campus, according to police. \u003ccite>(Santiago Mejia/San Francisco Chronicle via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In 2018, Beam guided the Laney Eagles to a state championship and a No. 1 ranking in the country. He gained national attention in season 5 of the Netflix docuseries \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6wXRJL52ZD8\">\u003cem>Last Chance U\u003c/em>\u003c/a>, released in 2020, which followed junior college football teams across the country for each season.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last year, Beam stepped down as football coach but remained at Laney College as athletic director. Before arriving at Laney in 2004, he coached at Skyline High School in the Oakland Hills for 17 years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Coach Beam’s legacy isn’t measured in championships or statistics,” Oakland Mayor Barbara Lee said in \u003ca href=\"https://x.com/BarbaraLee_CA/status/1989446798818349277\">a statement\u003c/a> Friday. “It’s measured in the thousands of young people he believed in, mentored, and refused to abandon, including my nephew, while at Skyline High School. He gave Oakland’s youth their best chance, and he never stopped fighting for them.”[aside postID=news_11996268 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/GettyImages-1470234174-672x372.png']Beam was \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12064033/oakland-laney-college-shooting-sends-athletic-staff-member-to-hospital\">shot in the Laney Field House\u003c/a> on Thursday afternoon, leaving the campus on lockdown as police secured the scene and investigated. 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