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"content": "\u003cp>Gov. Gavin Newsom’s letter to Oakland city leaders last month urging them to change the city’s policy on police vehicle chases seemed out of the ordinary: a governor weighing in forcefully on a somewhat-obscure element of local policing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But it’s part of a larger, slowly unfolding effort to exert state influence on law enforcement in Oakland and other California cities as crime concerns rise during an election year. In the past six months, Newsom has deployed California Highway Patrol officers to Oakland, then quadrupled their shifts, sent National Guard prosecutors to help the Alameda County District Attorney’s Office with drug cases, then chastised DA Pamela Price for not accepting the assistance quickly enough.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The state intervention — which includes extra deployments of CHP officers, \u003ca href=\"https://www.gov.ca.gov/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/District-Attorney-Pamela-J.-Price.7-10-2024.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">National Guard lawyers\u003c/a> or both in Oakland, San Francisco, Bakersfield and Riverside — plays well with some worried residents and business owners. And it may help fend off right-wing critiques of California as a liberal dystopia. But it has drawn criticism from police accountability groups and privacy experts concerned about the effect on residents, especially communities of color.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re a charter city. We have self rule,” said Brian Hofer, who chairs Oakland’s Privacy Advisory Commission, which recommends policy to the city on technology and privacy rights, including police surveillance. “We certainly need financial help, but we do not need this hostile takeover from Sacramento.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As California’s political pendulum \u003ca href=\"https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2024-08-16/poll-california-ballot-measures-prop-32-prop-33-prop-36\">swings back toward tough-on-crime policies\u003c/a>, the governor has tasked CHP officers with cracking down on auto, retail and cargo theft in Bakersfield and fentanyl dealing in San Francisco. Oakland, however, has drawn the bulk of the state’s attention.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>The Highway Patrol in Oakland\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The city’s scandal-plagued police department has already operated under the oversight of a federal monitor for the past two decades. Violent crime \u003ca href=\"https://cityofoakland2.app.box.com/s/sjiq7usfy27gy9dfe51hp8arz5l1ixad/file/1404598604813\">rose by more than 20% in 2023\u003c/a> before \u003ca href=\"https://cityofoakland2.app.box.com/s/sjiq7usfy27gy9dfe51hp8arz5l1ixad/file/1576921650750\">dropping again in the first half of 2024\u003c/a>, according to data from the police department and the \u003ca href=\"https://majorcitieschiefs.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/MCCA-Violent-Crime-Report-2024-and-2023-Midyear.pdf\">Major Cities Chiefs Association\u003c/a>. Gentrification has brought new waves of residents with different expectations about safety and policing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Oakland is so fractured right now,” Hofer said. “Fifty percent (of residents) think the CHP should be here and running the show because Oakland City Hall can’t manage itself. The other 50% totally resent this.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Newsom has called the CHP “the Swiss Army knife of law enforcement in the state” and said the agency’s job in Oakland is “not to substitute, but to support” the work of city officials. He’s said the surge is temporary and will last into November.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re encouraged by local reporting that crime is going down,” Newsom spokesperson Tara Gallegos said Friday. “It’s a step in the right direction for the Oakland community, but there is more work to do.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since CHP began surge operations in Oakland in February, the agency — tasked with helping patrol the city’s crime and traffic accident hotspots — said it has made 747 arrests, recovered more than 1,500 stolen vehicles and seized 74 guns as of Friday. Some police watchdogs expressed skepticism about those numbers; CalMatters requested documentation of the arrests and seizures but did not receive it by press time. A spokesperson for Alameda County District Attorney Price said her office has received 11 cases connected to the CHP surge for prosecution. “Their numbers obviously don’t match our numbers,” Price told reporters earlier this month.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The inability to agree even on basic data comes at a politically fraught and contradictory moment for criminal justice policy in Oakland and California. Price and Oakland mayor Sheng Thao both face recall campaigns backed by coalitions of residents, business owners and \u003ca href=\"https://oaklandside.org/2024/08/01/oakland-philip-dreyfuss-sheng-thao-mayor-recall/\">a deep-pocketed Piedmont hedge fund manager\u003c/a>, who say they’ve failed to keep residents safe. Californians will vote in November on a ballot measure that would toughen sentences for property and drug crimes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, the latest crime statistics from both \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/eastbay/article/oakland-crime-rate-down-19429327.php\">Oakland\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://data-openjustice.doj.ca.gov/sites/default/files/2024-07/Crime%20In%20CA%202023f.pdf\">California\u003c/a> show property crime trending downward and \u003ca href=\"https://www.ppic.org/publication/crime-trends-in-california/\">well below historic highs\u003c/a>, mirroring a nationwide pattern.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>James Burch, a spokesperson for the Anti Police-Terror Project, said community activists see a mismatch between the specific problems plaguing Oakland and CHP’s historic emphasis on traffic stops and recovering stolen vehicles.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We need to figure out how to support small businesses, especially those getting broken into, and we need to stop the flow of gun violence on our streets,” he said. “We don’t see CHP having the skills, the experience, the technical know-how to address these issues.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Instead, Burch argued, the city should invest more heavily in community violence-prevention programs that support those most likely to be involved in gun crimes to choose a different path.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12001842\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/081324_CHP_FM_CM_04.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12001842\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/081324_CHP_FM_CM_04.jpg\" alt=\"Four police cars and a man dressed in a police uniform are seen through bars.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/081324_CHP_FM_CM_04.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/081324_CHP_FM_CM_04-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/081324_CHP_FM_CM_04-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/081324_CHP_FM_CM_04-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/081324_CHP_FM_CM_04-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/081324_CHP_FM_CM_04-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Patrol vehicles at the California Highway Patrol office in Oakland on Aug. 13, 2024. \u003ccite>(Florence Middleton / CalMatters)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>One such program in Oakland, Operation Ceasefire, was scaled back during the pandemic, but city officials say they have revived it this year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At a July press conference, Newsom said a CHP crackdown on things like sideshows and DUIs could help free up local law enforcement to focus on other crimes. And Oakland Police Chief Floyd Mitchell said research shows that traffic stops can depress crime in an area for hours after the stop occurs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Part of what they’re doing in these traffic stops is to create a high visibility presence within our community to address that perception of crime and crime itself,” Mitchell said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Asked whether business owners she talks to have seen results from the CHP surge, Oakland African-American Chamber of Commerce president Cathy Adams said no.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Every call I get is they’ve been broken into, and it’s taking too long for people to show up,” she said. Still, Adams said that while she’s “not in favor of mass incarceration,” she supports the additional police resources CHP is providing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Oakland was starting to get a reputation like, ‘Hey, come on over, it’s a grocery store. You can get anything you want and walk right out,’ ” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Demario Daniels said he was happy to have support from a CHP officer after another car hit his Mustang near Fruitvale Avenue, then took off.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He was awesome. He helped calm me down,” said Daniels, who said he needed his car to look for work after a recent layoff. He said he appreciated that the officer reassured him but was honest about the fact that if he filed a report, it likely wouldn’t go anywhere.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>When state and local policing policies don’t mix\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The state intervention in Oakland policing has created the most waves when it comes into conflict with local policies that were crafted with community input.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When Newsom said this spring that the state would pay for and install in and around Oakland, nearly 500 automated license plate readers — surveillance cameras that law enforcement can use to track vehicles they suspect of being involved in crimes — police accountability groups raised concern that the devices wouldn’t be subject to the city’s surveillance policy. The policy requires annual reporting on the impact of any surveillance technology and bars data from being retained for longer than 30 days.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The CHP and the Oakland Police Department have since signed an agreement to each take custody of some of the cameras and share the data between agencies. The company providing them, Flock Safety, will delete the videos after 30 days. CHP will front the money for the cameras, with Oakland to pay the state back within a year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On vehicle chases, too, CHP’s policy differs from Oakland’s: Oakland officers are \u003ca href=\"https://data.oaklandca.gov/stories/s/Oakland-Police-Pursuits/j6sd-cq8q/\">only allowed to initiate pursuit\u003c/a> when they have a reasonable suspicion that the person they’re chasing has committed a violent crime or has a gun. CHP officers have wider discretion to chase “in order to apprehend a violator of the law who refuses to yield to the officer’s lawful direction.” Officers should not chase if they can identify the suspects well enough to track them down later, CHP policy also says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>CHP Commissioner Sean Duryee \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/politics/article/newsom-oakland-police-chase-19597534.php\">told the \u003cem>San Francisco Chronicle\u003c/em>\u003c/a> that his officers recently chased people at high speeds in Oakland after seeing them commit minor traffic violations, such as passing unsafely and driving without headlights. A CHP spokesperson said those chases led to the recovery of two stolen cars and an illegal gun.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In his letter to Oakland officials, Newsom touted a recent CHP blitz in which officers used police cars and a helicopter to chase people suspected of participating in sideshows, making five felony arrests. He acknowledged that such pursuits “can be dangerous to police, suspects and innocent bystanders.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“But there is also extreme danger to the public in allowing criminals to act with impunity,” the governor wrote, calling Oakland’s chase policy “an outlier” and asking the city council to reconsider it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A \u003ca href=\"https://portal.cops.usdoj.gov/resourcecenter/content.ashx/cops-r1134-pub.pdf\">2023 report\u003c/a> by the Police Executive Research Forum, a think tank, recommended police departments only allow vehicle chases when the person fleeing has committed a violent crime and poses an imminent threat to commit another violent crime. Funded by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration and the U.S. Justice Department, the study found that more than 90% of police chases happen because of traffic violations, that chases rarely lead to arrests for serious crimes and that about a fifth of serious injuries during chases are to innocent bystanders.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The danger is so great, and the potential for innocent people getting killed or severely injured is very high,” said John Burris, the attorney who represented plaintiffs in a landmark 2003 settlement that led to two decades of federal monitoring of Oakland police’s performance on reducing civil rights violations. He said changing the city’s chase policy would likely require a signoff from the federal monitor assigned to that case.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Burris also represented the family of Erik Salgado, who CHP officers shot to death after Salgado fled a traffic stop in Oakland in 2020. The CHP settled that case for $7 million last year, and some police accountability activists cite the agency’s chase policy as a factor in the killing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Any CHP officers investigating crimes in Oakland should receive additional training in implicit bias, the city’s communities and aspects of the settlement agreement governing use of force and police misconduct, Burris said. “We don’t want to have cops coming in and just thinking they can stop a car because there are Black and Hispanic kids in the car or demanding to search their cars just because you stopped them,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He said he was unaware of any complaints to his office about CHP stopping Oaklanders without probable cause during the surge but that his staff was monitoring the situation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>CHP officers are more likely to be white and male than both Oakland police officers and those in California law enforcement overall, \u003ca href=\"https://post.ca.gov/Law-Enforcement-Demographics\">according to the state’s Commission on Peace Officer Standards and Training\u003c/a>. Helped by the \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/justice/2023/11/chp-2023-salary-increase/\">automatic pay increases\u003c/a> officers receive under California law, CHP recently embarked on a recruiting campaign that \u003ca href=\"https://www.gov.ca.gov/2024/02/26/chp-recruitment/\">boosted applications\u003c/a> to join the agency at a time when many police departments are struggling to attract candidates.[aside postID=\"news_11993611,news_11974920,news_11999063\" label=\"Related Stories\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The agency also differs from Oakland police in some measures of transparency. Oakland’s vehicle chase policy, for example, is listed on the police department’s website; CHP asked CalMatters to file a formal public records before providing its policy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Neither agency made any officials available for an interview for this story.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>More lawyers for prosecution, but not defense\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Differences in law enforcement policy can lead to jurisdictional battles. Oakland’s police pulled out of the FBI’s Joint Terrorism Task Force in 2020, and San Francisco’s did in 2017 after participating for at least a decade after civil liberties advocates raised concerns about FBI surveillance and profiling of ethnic and religious groups, immigrants and political protesters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We have more restrictive policies in the Bay Area because that’s what our community is comfortable with,” Hofer said. “Bring in the state or feds and that all goes out the window.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Police departments’ efforts to build trust with local communities can suffer when another law enforcement agency parachutes in for a brief period, said Jorja Leap, a professor at UCLA’s Luskin School of Public Affairs who studies gang violence and community policing. She called the state’s deployment “a temporary fix for a deeply rooted problem” and a shift away from the efforts by cities, including Oakland, over the past two decades to engage with the root causes of crime.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We have a bunch of police chiefs who all stood up and said, ‘We can’t arrest our way out of the problem,’ ” she said. “And now we’ve got a governor going, ‘Yes, we can.’ ”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Newsom has pointed out that the state has also spent millions of dollars on community violence prevention programs, including \u003ca href=\"https://www.bscc.ca.gov/s_cpgpcalvipgrant/\">$6 million over three years for Oakland’s Operation Ceasefire\u003c/a>. However, his announcements of state public safety support to cities over the past year have focused largely on sending cops and prosecutors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the governor’s request, California National Guard lawyers and case analysts have been working fentanyl cases in San Francisco over the past year. Crime is \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11996211/san-francisco-crime-is-down-significantly-but-its-not-clear-trend-will-last\">down in the city\u003c/a>, while accidental drug overdose deaths in the first six months of this year ticked down just slightly compared with the same period last year, from 405 to 373. The state help has gotten a warm reception from Mayor London Breed and a chilly one from the San Francisco Public Defender’s office.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The increased arrests for suspected drug-related crimes have filled our jails, clogged our courts, and harmed a lot of people who actually need help,” the public defender’s office said in a statement to CalMatters. “As predicted, arresting people for drug use has largely failed to get people into recovery programs.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When Newsom said in February that he would also send California National Guard lawyers to help prosecute Alameda County drug cases, the county’s chief public defender, Brendon Woods, noted that his office was not receiving any additional state resources. “This is only going to lead to more caging of Black and Brown people,” Woods posted on X at the time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Newsom assigned the lawyers anyway, and when he deemed that District Attorney Price was not taking advantage of the support quickly enough, he inked an agreement earlier this month to have the prosecutors work out of the California Department of Justice instead.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We just don’t have time,” he told reporters in July. “People don’t want to wait another day. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Gov. Gavin Newsom’s letter to Oakland city leaders last month urging them to change the city’s policy on police vehicle chases seemed out of the ordinary: a governor weighing in forcefully on a somewhat-obscure element of local policing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But it’s part of a larger, slowly unfolding effort to exert state influence on law enforcement in Oakland and other California cities as crime concerns rise during an election year. In the past six months, Newsom has deployed California Highway Patrol officers to Oakland, then quadrupled their shifts, sent National Guard prosecutors to help the Alameda County District Attorney’s Office with drug cases, then chastised DA Pamela Price for not accepting the assistance quickly enough.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The state intervention — which includes extra deployments of CHP officers, \u003ca href=\"https://www.gov.ca.gov/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/District-Attorney-Pamela-J.-Price.7-10-2024.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">National Guard lawyers\u003c/a> or both in Oakland, San Francisco, Bakersfield and Riverside — plays well with some worried residents and business owners. And it may help fend off right-wing critiques of California as a liberal dystopia. But it has drawn criticism from police accountability groups and privacy experts concerned about the effect on residents, especially communities of color.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re a charter city. We have self rule,” said Brian Hofer, who chairs Oakland’s Privacy Advisory Commission, which recommends policy to the city on technology and privacy rights, including police surveillance. “We certainly need financial help, but we do not need this hostile takeover from Sacramento.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As California’s political pendulum \u003ca href=\"https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2024-08-16/poll-california-ballot-measures-prop-32-prop-33-prop-36\">swings back toward tough-on-crime policies\u003c/a>, the governor has tasked CHP officers with cracking down on auto, retail and cargo theft in Bakersfield and fentanyl dealing in San Francisco. Oakland, however, has drawn the bulk of the state’s attention.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>The Highway Patrol in Oakland\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The city’s scandal-plagued police department has already operated under the oversight of a federal monitor for the past two decades. Violent crime \u003ca href=\"https://cityofoakland2.app.box.com/s/sjiq7usfy27gy9dfe51hp8arz5l1ixad/file/1404598604813\">rose by more than 20% in 2023\u003c/a> before \u003ca href=\"https://cityofoakland2.app.box.com/s/sjiq7usfy27gy9dfe51hp8arz5l1ixad/file/1576921650750\">dropping again in the first half of 2024\u003c/a>, according to data from the police department and the \u003ca href=\"https://majorcitieschiefs.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/MCCA-Violent-Crime-Report-2024-and-2023-Midyear.pdf\">Major Cities Chiefs Association\u003c/a>. Gentrification has brought new waves of residents with different expectations about safety and policing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Oakland is so fractured right now,” Hofer said. “Fifty percent (of residents) think the CHP should be here and running the show because Oakland City Hall can’t manage itself. The other 50% totally resent this.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Newsom has called the CHP “the Swiss Army knife of law enforcement in the state” and said the agency’s job in Oakland is “not to substitute, but to support” the work of city officials. He’s said the surge is temporary and will last into November.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re encouraged by local reporting that crime is going down,” Newsom spokesperson Tara Gallegos said Friday. “It’s a step in the right direction for the Oakland community, but there is more work to do.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since CHP began surge operations in Oakland in February, the agency — tasked with helping patrol the city’s crime and traffic accident hotspots — said it has made 747 arrests, recovered more than 1,500 stolen vehicles and seized 74 guns as of Friday. Some police watchdogs expressed skepticism about those numbers; CalMatters requested documentation of the arrests and seizures but did not receive it by press time. A spokesperson for Alameda County District Attorney Price said her office has received 11 cases connected to the CHP surge for prosecution. “Their numbers obviously don’t match our numbers,” Price told reporters earlier this month.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The inability to agree even on basic data comes at a politically fraught and contradictory moment for criminal justice policy in Oakland and California. Price and Oakland mayor Sheng Thao both face recall campaigns backed by coalitions of residents, business owners and \u003ca href=\"https://oaklandside.org/2024/08/01/oakland-philip-dreyfuss-sheng-thao-mayor-recall/\">a deep-pocketed Piedmont hedge fund manager\u003c/a>, who say they’ve failed to keep residents safe. Californians will vote in November on a ballot measure that would toughen sentences for property and drug crimes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, the latest crime statistics from both \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/eastbay/article/oakland-crime-rate-down-19429327.php\">Oakland\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://data-openjustice.doj.ca.gov/sites/default/files/2024-07/Crime%20In%20CA%202023f.pdf\">California\u003c/a> show property crime trending downward and \u003ca href=\"https://www.ppic.org/publication/crime-trends-in-california/\">well below historic highs\u003c/a>, mirroring a nationwide pattern.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>James Burch, a spokesperson for the Anti Police-Terror Project, said community activists see a mismatch between the specific problems plaguing Oakland and CHP’s historic emphasis on traffic stops and recovering stolen vehicles.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We need to figure out how to support small businesses, especially those getting broken into, and we need to stop the flow of gun violence on our streets,” he said. “We don’t see CHP having the skills, the experience, the technical know-how to address these issues.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Instead, Burch argued, the city should invest more heavily in community violence-prevention programs that support those most likely to be involved in gun crimes to choose a different path.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12001842\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/081324_CHP_FM_CM_04.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12001842\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/081324_CHP_FM_CM_04.jpg\" alt=\"Four police cars and a man dressed in a police uniform are seen through bars.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/081324_CHP_FM_CM_04.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/081324_CHP_FM_CM_04-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/081324_CHP_FM_CM_04-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/081324_CHP_FM_CM_04-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/081324_CHP_FM_CM_04-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/081324_CHP_FM_CM_04-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Patrol vehicles at the California Highway Patrol office in Oakland on Aug. 13, 2024. \u003ccite>(Florence Middleton / CalMatters)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>One such program in Oakland, Operation Ceasefire, was scaled back during the pandemic, but city officials say they have revived it this year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At a July press conference, Newsom said a CHP crackdown on things like sideshows and DUIs could help free up local law enforcement to focus on other crimes. And Oakland Police Chief Floyd Mitchell said research shows that traffic stops can depress crime in an area for hours after the stop occurs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Part of what they’re doing in these traffic stops is to create a high visibility presence within our community to address that perception of crime and crime itself,” Mitchell said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Asked whether business owners she talks to have seen results from the CHP surge, Oakland African-American Chamber of Commerce president Cathy Adams said no.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Every call I get is they’ve been broken into, and it’s taking too long for people to show up,” she said. Still, Adams said that while she’s “not in favor of mass incarceration,” she supports the additional police resources CHP is providing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Oakland was starting to get a reputation like, ‘Hey, come on over, it’s a grocery store. You can get anything you want and walk right out,’ ” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Demario Daniels said he was happy to have support from a CHP officer after another car hit his Mustang near Fruitvale Avenue, then took off.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He was awesome. He helped calm me down,” said Daniels, who said he needed his car to look for work after a recent layoff. He said he appreciated that the officer reassured him but was honest about the fact that if he filed a report, it likely wouldn’t go anywhere.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>When state and local policing policies don’t mix\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The state intervention in Oakland policing has created the most waves when it comes into conflict with local policies that were crafted with community input.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When Newsom said this spring that the state would pay for and install in and around Oakland, nearly 500 automated license plate readers — surveillance cameras that law enforcement can use to track vehicles they suspect of being involved in crimes — police accountability groups raised concern that the devices wouldn’t be subject to the city’s surveillance policy. The policy requires annual reporting on the impact of any surveillance technology and bars data from being retained for longer than 30 days.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The CHP and the Oakland Police Department have since signed an agreement to each take custody of some of the cameras and share the data between agencies. The company providing them, Flock Safety, will delete the videos after 30 days. CHP will front the money for the cameras, with Oakland to pay the state back within a year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On vehicle chases, too, CHP’s policy differs from Oakland’s: Oakland officers are \u003ca href=\"https://data.oaklandca.gov/stories/s/Oakland-Police-Pursuits/j6sd-cq8q/\">only allowed to initiate pursuit\u003c/a> when they have a reasonable suspicion that the person they’re chasing has committed a violent crime or has a gun. CHP officers have wider discretion to chase “in order to apprehend a violator of the law who refuses to yield to the officer’s lawful direction.” Officers should not chase if they can identify the suspects well enough to track them down later, CHP policy also says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>CHP Commissioner Sean Duryee \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/politics/article/newsom-oakland-police-chase-19597534.php\">told the \u003cem>San Francisco Chronicle\u003c/em>\u003c/a> that his officers recently chased people at high speeds in Oakland after seeing them commit minor traffic violations, such as passing unsafely and driving without headlights. A CHP spokesperson said those chases led to the recovery of two stolen cars and an illegal gun.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In his letter to Oakland officials, Newsom touted a recent CHP blitz in which officers used police cars and a helicopter to chase people suspected of participating in sideshows, making five felony arrests. He acknowledged that such pursuits “can be dangerous to police, suspects and innocent bystanders.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“But there is also extreme danger to the public in allowing criminals to act with impunity,” the governor wrote, calling Oakland’s chase policy “an outlier” and asking the city council to reconsider it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A \u003ca href=\"https://portal.cops.usdoj.gov/resourcecenter/content.ashx/cops-r1134-pub.pdf\">2023 report\u003c/a> by the Police Executive Research Forum, a think tank, recommended police departments only allow vehicle chases when the person fleeing has committed a violent crime and poses an imminent threat to commit another violent crime. Funded by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration and the U.S. Justice Department, the study found that more than 90% of police chases happen because of traffic violations, that chases rarely lead to arrests for serious crimes and that about a fifth of serious injuries during chases are to innocent bystanders.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The danger is so great, and the potential for innocent people getting killed or severely injured is very high,” said John Burris, the attorney who represented plaintiffs in a landmark 2003 settlement that led to two decades of federal monitoring of Oakland police’s performance on reducing civil rights violations. He said changing the city’s chase policy would likely require a signoff from the federal monitor assigned to that case.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Burris also represented the family of Erik Salgado, who CHP officers shot to death after Salgado fled a traffic stop in Oakland in 2020. The CHP settled that case for $7 million last year, and some police accountability activists cite the agency’s chase policy as a factor in the killing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Any CHP officers investigating crimes in Oakland should receive additional training in implicit bias, the city’s communities and aspects of the settlement agreement governing use of force and police misconduct, Burris said. “We don’t want to have cops coming in and just thinking they can stop a car because there are Black and Hispanic kids in the car or demanding to search their cars just because you stopped them,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He said he was unaware of any complaints to his office about CHP stopping Oaklanders without probable cause during the surge but that his staff was monitoring the situation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>CHP officers are more likely to be white and male than both Oakland police officers and those in California law enforcement overall, \u003ca href=\"https://post.ca.gov/Law-Enforcement-Demographics\">according to the state’s Commission on Peace Officer Standards and Training\u003c/a>. Helped by the \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/justice/2023/11/chp-2023-salary-increase/\">automatic pay increases\u003c/a> officers receive under California law, CHP recently embarked on a recruiting campaign that \u003ca href=\"https://www.gov.ca.gov/2024/02/26/chp-recruitment/\">boosted applications\u003c/a> to join the agency at a time when many police departments are struggling to attract candidates.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The agency also differs from Oakland police in some measures of transparency. Oakland’s vehicle chase policy, for example, is listed on the police department’s website; CHP asked CalMatters to file a formal public records before providing its policy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Neither agency made any officials available for an interview for this story.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>More lawyers for prosecution, but not defense\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Differences in law enforcement policy can lead to jurisdictional battles. Oakland’s police pulled out of the FBI’s Joint Terrorism Task Force in 2020, and San Francisco’s did in 2017 after participating for at least a decade after civil liberties advocates raised concerns about FBI surveillance and profiling of ethnic and religious groups, immigrants and political protesters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We have more restrictive policies in the Bay Area because that’s what our community is comfortable with,” Hofer said. “Bring in the state or feds and that all goes out the window.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Police departments’ efforts to build trust with local communities can suffer when another law enforcement agency parachutes in for a brief period, said Jorja Leap, a professor at UCLA’s Luskin School of Public Affairs who studies gang violence and community policing. She called the state’s deployment “a temporary fix for a deeply rooted problem” and a shift away from the efforts by cities, including Oakland, over the past two decades to engage with the root causes of crime.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We have a bunch of police chiefs who all stood up and said, ‘We can’t arrest our way out of the problem,’ ” she said. “And now we’ve got a governor going, ‘Yes, we can.’ ”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Newsom has pointed out that the state has also spent millions of dollars on community violence prevention programs, including \u003ca href=\"https://www.bscc.ca.gov/s_cpgpcalvipgrant/\">$6 million over three years for Oakland’s Operation Ceasefire\u003c/a>. However, his announcements of state public safety support to cities over the past year have focused largely on sending cops and prosecutors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the governor’s request, California National Guard lawyers and case analysts have been working fentanyl cases in San Francisco over the past year. Crime is \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11996211/san-francisco-crime-is-down-significantly-but-its-not-clear-trend-will-last\">down in the city\u003c/a>, while accidental drug overdose deaths in the first six months of this year ticked down just slightly compared with the same period last year, from 405 to 373. The state help has gotten a warm reception from Mayor London Breed and a chilly one from the San Francisco Public Defender’s office.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The increased arrests for suspected drug-related crimes have filled our jails, clogged our courts, and harmed a lot of people who actually need help,” the public defender’s office said in a statement to CalMatters. “As predicted, arresting people for drug use has largely failed to get people into recovery programs.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When Newsom said in February that he would also send California National Guard lawyers to help prosecute Alameda County drug cases, the county’s chief public defender, Brendon Woods, noted that his office was not receiving any additional state resources. “This is only going to lead to more caging of Black and Brown people,” Woods posted on X at the time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Newsom assigned the lawyers anyway, and when he deemed that District Attorney Price was not taking advantage of the support quickly enough, he inked an agreement earlier this month to have the prosecutors work out of the California Department of Justice instead.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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Rape is down 8%, robberies are down 15%, and aggravated assaults are down 4% compared to the first half of last year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oakland’s crime data has come under scrutiny before. Last month, \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/crime/article/oakland-police-data-reports-19545681.php\">the \u003cem>San Francisco Chronicle\u003c/em> reported\u003c/a> that Oakland has been publishing misleading crime data for years. The review found police statistics overstated a reduction in crime, though it did find OPD’s data for homicides and violent crimes to be “mostly accurate.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Francisco also saw a decrease in its violent crimes, according to the Major Cities Chiefs Association report.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, Frederick Shavies, deputy chief of the Police Department’s Bureau of Investigations, said the U.S. Marshals Service arrested a young woman in Dallas in connection with the July 6 shooting death of another young woman at a First Friday celebration in Oakland.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">[aside postID=news_11989730 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/20161112_214941_qut-1020x765.jpg']\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Assistant Chief James Beere said Oakland police arrested three separate groups of people linked to two dozen assaults and robberies around the Westlake Christian Terrace retirement home near Lake Merritt.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’ve taken several proactive steps to sustain our operations and maintain the public safety in that area to work with the community leaders and meet with the residents,” Beere said. “We’re not taking our foot off the gas. 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They come from all over the state, as well as one from out of state, which we see quite frequently.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Chief acknowledges failures over officer misconduct\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Mitchell said Friday that the department is reviewing its internal affairs policies and training after a federal monitor said its response to alleged officer misconduct remains inadequate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The federal monitor said in a report last week that Oakland police mishandled cases involving perjury and bribery allegations against a homicide detective and a sergeant who fired his gun inside a city building.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Asked about progress on the issue, Mitchell said turnover of the entire executive command staff is partly responsible for addressing failures within the internal affairs division, but he’s addressing those issues now.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Yes, there are some issues out there, but from my lens or the seat that I sit in, I want to make sure that we are continuing to educate our staff so we don’t continue to have these failures that keep us out of compliance,” Mitchell said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The department has been under federal court supervision since 2003. 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I hope that the governor will get the facts and call us.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The plan to send state prosecutors to Oakland, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11975161/newsom-to-send-state-prosecutors-to-oakland-to-help-crack-down-on-rising-crime\">announced in February,\u003c/a> came on the heels of the governor’s decision to send 120 CHP officers to Oakland, where violent crimes — homicide, aggravated assault, robbery and rape — rose 21% from 2022 to 2023, according to \u003ca href=\"https://cityofoakland2.app.box.com/s/sjiq7usfy27gy9dfe51hp8arz5l1ixad/file/1404598604813\">Oakland Police Department data\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Citywide Weekly Crime Report posted earlier this week by OPD shows that violent crime is \u003ca href=\"https://cityofoakland2.app.box.com/s/sjiq7usfy27gy9dfe51hp8arz5l1ixad/file/1583885461436\">down 13%\u003c/a> from this point in 2023. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Early last year, Oakland Mayor Sheng Thao fired Chief LeRonne Armstrong over allegations that the police department improperly investigated misconduct charges against a sergeant accused of a hit-and-run collision in 2021 and discharging a firearm in an OPD elevator in 2022. In response, Armstrong filed a lawsuit \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11974985/former-oakland-police-chief-leronne-armstrong-sues-city-for-wrongful-termination\">for wrongful termination in early February.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The search for a new police chief took more than a year — \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/eastbay/article/oakland-mayor-rejects-police-chief-candidates-18576741.php\">Thao rejected the first batch of nominees\u003c/a> (which included Armstrong) in December 2023, forcing the police commission to start its search over again.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I know that he’s a strong leader, and I know that he’s a smart crime fighter who delivers results,” \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11980455/oakland-mayor-sheng-thao-appoints-floyd-mitchell-as-new-police-chief\">Thao said of Mitchell in March\u003c/a>. “His commitment to proven crime-reduction strategies include proactive policing, and the most important part is the strong officer community engagement.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Thao is currently facing \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11981018/new-police-chief-floyd-mitchell-pledges-to-work-with-the-citizens-of-oakland-to-address-citys-challenges\">a recall effort\u003c/a>, with organizers criticizing Thao for failing to address issues related to public safety and for \u003ca href=\"https://oaklandside.org/2024/01/09/oakland-mayor-sheng-thao-recall-campaign/\">firing Armstrong\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to \u003cem>Oaklandside, \u003c/em>most of the money \u003ca href=\"https://oaklandside.org/2024/05/01/whos-funding-the-recall-campaign-against-oakland-mayor-sheng-thao/\">recall organizers \u003c/a>raised was from undisclosed donors and a San Francisco tech billionaire family \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/sf/article/march-2024-prop-e-tech-money-conway-larsen-police-18570659.php\">focused on funding police ballot measures\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cem>Updated 2:45 p.m. Friday\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mayor Sheng Thao on Friday morning announced the selection of Floyd Mitchell as Oakland’s new police chief, ending more than a year-long search for the top cop in a city that has struggled to control a sharp rise in crime.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mitchell, who most recently served as the first Black police chief of the city of Lubbock, Texas, will take over a department that has been without a permanent leader since Thao \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11974985/former-oakland-police-chief-leronne-armstrong-sues-city-for-wrongful-termination\">fired former Chief LeRonne Armstrong in February 2023\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I know that he’s a strong leader, and I know that he’s a smart crime fighter who delivers results,” Thao told KQED in an interview on Friday. “His commitment to proven crime-reduction strategies include proactive policing, and the most important part is the strong officer community engagement.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mitchell was \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11977438/these-are-the-4-oakland-police-chief-candidates-mayor-sheng-thao-will-consider-for-the-job\">one of four candidates presented to the mayor last month\u003c/a> by the Oakland Police Commission following a long and often contentious search process. The Commission originally presented Thao with a group of three other candidates — including the fired Armstrong — that she \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/eastbay/article/oakland-mayor-rejects-police-chief-candidates-18576741.php\">rejected\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Among the second group of candidates, two finalists, including Mitchell, sat for long one-on-one interviews with the mayor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label=\"more Oakland police coverage\" tag=\"oakland-police-department\"]Thao said Mitchell’s track record on crime reduction in Texas “vaulted him to the top of the list.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mitchell will take over the department between late April and early May, the mayor’s office said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A veteran of the U.S. Air Force, Mitchell began his policing career in Kansas City, Missouri, where he served as an officer for 25 years. He later became police chief of the city of Temple, Texas. In 2019, he took the top post in Lubbock, heading the city’s police department until he resigned in September 2023.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to data released by the mayor’s office, Lubbock, which has a population of 260,000, saw overall crime decrease by about 5% in 2020 and 2021 before rising by about 7%. In the smaller town of Temple, the office said, crime fell each year he was chief.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I want to work to get up to speed as quickly as I possibly can with each individual bureau of operation and their responsibility, so I can help them move forward,” Mitchell said at a \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11977871/oakland-police-commission-survey-seeks-resident-input-on-opd-chief-candidates-after-public-forum\">recent community meeting with the four police chief candidates\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think it’s vitally important to get feedback from the officers that have boots on the ground and determine from them where we excel and where we can do better work to address crime and quality of life issues.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mitchell comes to the department just over a year after Thao fired former Chief Armstrong following allegations that, under his watch, the department had failed to properly investigate two misconduct charges against a sergeant who was accused of a hit-and-run and of discharging a firearm in an elevator at police department headquarters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Armstrong has since appealed his termination and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11974985/former-oakland-police-chief-leronne-armstrong-sues-city-for-wrongful-termination\">filed a lawsuit against Thao and the city of Oakland\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Public safety is the most important issue in Oakland. We have a dedicated police force that now has a new leader. I send my best wishes to Floyd Mitchell and offer any assistance he may desire,” Armstrong said in a statement. “This is my hometown. I want everyone to be safe and will do everything in my power, now as a private citizen, to assist in that goal.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Critics of the mayor’s response to rising crime and to the lengthy search for a new police chief raised additional concerns about Mitchell’s record in Texas.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Former Alameda Superior Court Judge Brenda Harbin-Forte pointed to reports that the Lubbock Police Department abandoned more than 30,000 911 calls in 2022, double the amount from 2020, under Mitchell’s leadership.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I am troubled by some of what he brings, particularly as it relates to 911 response times. He left his old job because of concerns with that. Oakland, as you know, has for months been trying to fix our 911 response time,” Harbin-Forte told KQED. “I hope he will be able to get up to speed and get Oakland up to speed on this.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mitchell \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/eastbay/article/oakland-thao-names-floyd-mitchell-19326160.php\">told \u003cem>the San Francisco Chronicle\u003c/em>\u003c/a> he stepped down after his decisions in Lubbock were met with resistance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Thao defended Mitchell’s record and her decision when asked about the 911 call response times in Lubbock.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I asked Chief Mitchell directly about my concerns around the 911 calls. And to be quite honest, I was pretty impressed with his response,” Thao told KQED. “He didn’t make any excuses about the situation, but instead he really talked about what he learned from the experience and how he can bring that to the city of Oakland.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He will also step into the office as Oakland faces an \u003ca href=\"https://cityofoakland2.app.box.com/s/sjiq7usfy27gy9dfe51hp8arz5l1ixad/folder/126124687343\">uptick in violent crime\u003c/a>, along with intensified calls from the public for stronger safety measures. The department is also currently tasked with completing a set of reforms mandated by federal courts to address its troubled history with police brutality.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cat Brooks, co-founder of the Oakland-based Anti Police-Terror Project, said she was concerned that the department’s new leadership could encourage a shift toward more aggressive policing tactics that would disproportionately impact Oakland’s Black community.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m concerned that might be a move he makes to quell the more conservative, carceral voices that have gotten louder in Oakland,” Brooks said, referring to calls by some residents to prioritize arrests over community-based alternatives to policing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Marsha Carpenter Peterson, chair of the Oakland Police Commission, said in a statement that her oversight body had found “only the most qualified candidates” for the mayor to consider.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We look forward to working closely with Chief Mitchell to achieve the constitutional policing and reforms required to ensure fairness and justice for all the residents of Oakland,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mitchell joins a department with a strikingly turbulent history that has \u003ca href=\"https://oaklandside.org/2024/01/08/hiring-oakland-police-chief-has-always-been-messy/\">churned through its top brass in recent years\u003c/a>. Since 2005, 12 permanent and interim chiefs have come and gone, including two who were fired and one who was forced to resign after just six days on the job.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sgt. Huy Nguyen, president of the Oakland Police Officers’ Association, said his union was relieved that the department finally had a new permanent leader after more than a year of uncertainty.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Oakland’s diligent police officers eagerly anticipate collaborating with Chief Mitchell in serving our community,” he said in a statement. “Despite challenges, our dedicated Oakland police officers continue to show up daily to serve our city’s residents.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>KQED reporter Juan Carlos Lara contributed to this story.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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Crime along Hegenberger Road drew national attention in January when In-N-Out Burger \u003ca href=\"https://www.ktvu.com/news/too-little-too-late-east-oaklanders-disappointed-in-n-out-is-closing\">announced\u003c/a> plans to close its only Oakland location, at the Hegenberger exit off Highway 880, citing crime concerns. 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At the press conference, Patel said that things have been improving with the city’s focus on the neighborhood. “The increase in police, sheriff and CHP presence is welcomed by hoteliers, residents and tourists alike. The ambassador program will only continue to build on that and bolster our overall collective efforts.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In the past several months, we have seen an overall improvement along the corridor,” Patel said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oakland police said property crimes in the area have gone down since mid-2023.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_11959799,news_11975161,news_11961919]“Currently, we have six foot-patrol officers and one sergeant dedicated to East Oakland,” said Angelica Mendoza, deputy chief of the Oakland Police Department. “Officers focus on enhancing security in shopping centers and gas stations within their respective areas.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This is all part of a $2 million effort to fund safety improvements across the Hegenberger corridor, Fruitvale neighborhood and downtown Oakland. At a press conference last month at the Holiday Inn & Suites on Hegenberger Road, law enforcement and community leaders also \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/crime/article/east-bay-crime-consortium-18667201.php\">announced\u003c/a> they would meet quarterly to coordinate strategies to reduce crime.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In February, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11974920/newsom-to-deploy-120-chp-officers-to-fight-crime-surge-in-oakland\">120 California Highway Patrol officers were deployed\u003c/a> to Oakland and elsewhere in Alameda County as part of a “surge operation” that resulted in scores of arrests and the recovery of hundreds of stolen vehicles.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The CHP will continue to conduct unannounced surge operations alongside our law enforcement partner agencies in high-crime areas across the East Bay region,” said Don Goodbrand, CHP’s Golden Gate division commander. “Future searches will consist of 40 to 65 officers, in addition to the 72 that are currently assigned to the Oakland office for patrol.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oakland Councilmember Treva Reid, whose district includes the corridor, also highlighted the work of community safety ambassadors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The safety ambassador program was launched at a critical time here in East Oakland,” Reid said. “We all feel the weight of the public safety crisis. 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"content": "\u003cp>The Oakland Police Commission is seeking residents’ input after a public forum on Thursday where four police chief candidates shared their visions for the department.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During the meeting, the candidates answered questions about why they believed they were right for the job and how they would change the culture of a department with a long history of impropriety.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Although residents in attendance were not given time to ask questions or share comments during the meeting, Police Commission Chair Marsha Peterson invited them to fill out a survey where they could rank the candidates and share comments or concerns. Peterson said the results of the survey would be shared with Mayor Sheng Thao, who will make the final decision.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdsDiljN_qgEN4vA6weGpM8UQXLRR4P-rL1YvSuTNZBH_cWBA/viewform\">The survey closes on Monday at noon\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The first candidate to appear virtually Thursday night was Louis Molina, a former Las Vegas police chief and currently assistant deputy mayor for public safety in New York City. Others vying for the role include Lisa Davis, an assistant police chief of the Cincinnati Police Department; Abdul Pridgen, the former police chief in San Leandro; and Floyd Mitchell, a former police chief in Lubbock, Texas.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pridgen was included in the previous list of entrants the Commission recommended to Mayor Thao late last year. She rejected the list entirely and asked the Commission to draw up new candidates.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Peterson addressed the reappearance of Pridgen’s name.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“One of the candidates tonight was on the list that we sent in December because we believe in the merit of his candidacy and because we understood that the mayor’s office was still interested in vetting him,” Peterson said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The contentious search to fill the position’s vacancy has led some critics to attribute increases in certain types of crime in Oakland to the lack of a permanent chief.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_11977438 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/GettyImages-1466896342-1020x680.jpg']In 2023, violent crime surged by 21%, compared to the previous year when the number of homicides plateaued at 120. Yet robberies spiked 38%, and motor vehicle theft jumped 45%, according to Oakland Police Department end-of-year data.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a written statement, Mayor Thao’s office said she would “take the time that is necessary to select the person that will lead the Oakland Police Department.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She did not rule out the possibility of once again rejecting the list in its entirety.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dissatisfaction with how the city has handled crime has also contributed to recall efforts against both Mayor Thao and Alameda County District Attorney Pamela Price.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During the forum, many of the candidates shared common themes in their responses, such as a commitment to address residents’ concerns, collaborating with the Police Commission and federal monitor to complete the reform goals for the department — and a desire to boost officer morale.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yet responses differed in their approaches to these goals.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>Louis Molina\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Molina emphasized the importance of not relying on police to solve every problem within a city. He said he would work with social service and public health agencies to divert cases of individuals suffering from mental health or substance abuse problems.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When you come from a totally enforcement strategy to deal with crime and overly populating the justice system with individuals that are driven to that because of other issues, you’re not doing any help but having the person cycle through a justice system, when what they really need is more of a public health solution,” Molina said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote align=\"right\" size=\"medium\" citation=\"Louis Molina\"]‘There’s going to be times where we’re going to make mistakes. And as chief, I will be leaning into those situations, and I will be transparent while at the same time respecting the investigative process and due process of individuals.’[/pullquote]The assistant deputy mayor also vowed to send more calls to the city’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11971369/is-oaklands-community-response-team-a-successful-alternative-to-police\">MACRO office\u003c/a>, a community response program for nonviolent, non-emergency 911 calls.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When asked how he’d change the culture within Oakland’s troubled police department, Molina referenced his experience leading New York City’s Department of Corrections to demonstrate his ability to hold those accountable under his leadership. Molina said during his time there, he worked through a backlog of thousands of disciplinary cases and decided to “forcibly separate over 300 individuals from service.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Staff absenteeism dropped over 80%. Use of force dropped in our first year 14%. So there are a lot of positive outcomes that can happen when we have standards,” Molina said. “There’s going to be times where we’re going to make mistakes. And as chief, I will be leaning into those situations, and I will be transparent while at the same time respecting the investigative process and due process of individuals.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2023/10/31/nyregion/louis-molina-deputy-mayor-safety.html\">\u003cem>The New York Times\u003c/em>\u003c/a> reported last year, however, that Molina was criticized by a federal monitor of the city’s jails for a perceived lack of transparency and active efforts to conceal certain incidents of violence under his watch.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>Lisa Davis\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>In her responses, Davis focused on improving the experiences of police officers as a means of bringing positive change to the department. She began her remarks by offering her condolences to city police for the death of \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11971175/oakland-police-officer-shot-and-killed-on-duty-near-jack-london-square\">Officer Tuan Le\u003c/a>, who was fatally shot while responding to a burglary call in late December.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In her first 100 days, Davis said she would engage in a listening tour with members of the community and the department to ensure a smooth transition.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Organizational change is very hard inside of a police department. … and certainly, when you’re bringing in an outside chief to lead the department, it can be hard on the officers. So I think a couple of things have to be done,” Davis said. “And that is meeting the officers, addressing their concerns, addressing any rumors that they hear, and just letting them know what your expectations are, what your plan is for the department, and just being as transparent as you can be with them when doing that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote align=\"right\" size=\"medium\" citation=\"Lisa Davis\"]‘Morale is something that absolutely affects recruiting and retention. It affects officer wellness, all of those things. So morale has to be addressed.’[/pullquote]Davis said she believes there are three types of officers: About 10% are highly motivated and engaged, 80% aren’t very motivated but still do their jobs and 10% are never happy to be at work. She hopes to get the 80% reengaged.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Morale is something that absolutely affects recruiting and retention. It affects officer wellness, all of those things. So morale has to be addressed,” Davis said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She added that she intends to raise morale by giving officers support, training and resources essential to their roles while also minimizing the stigma associated with seeking counseling.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As she spoke, Davis also shared formative experiences with police during her childhood, including one traumatic incident when officers entered her home looking for her uncle.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The next thing I know, I see my uncle flying off of the second-floor banister. They threw him over a set of stairs,” Davis said. “But I had other experiences with police. I had a school resource officer that was so kind and so involved in school that I knew all cops were not this way.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She said these experiences propelled her to work in public service and also made her right for the job.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>Abdul Pridgen\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Pridgen pointed to his years of experience in various aspects of law enforcement, including as finance and personnel assistance chief in Fort Worth, Texas. 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City officials have not said which policies were violated.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>Floyd Mitchell\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Mitchell pointed to his background, growing up in a diverse metropolitan area with policing issues related to Black and brown communities, as instructive in helping him learn about “true constitutional and procedurally just policing.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote align=\"right\" size=\"medium\" citation=\"Floyd Mitchell\"]‘I feel comfortable that I would be able to come into this situation and understand that all of us have our individual parts and pieces that we bring to the table in regards to how we hold people accountable and work together.’[/pullquote]Mitchell said in his time as police chief in the cities of Lubbock and Temple, Texas, he learned to work effectively with neighborhood and community groups like the NAACP.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Similar to Davis, Mitchell expressed belief in the idea that increased personal and professional support of officers will translate into better treatment of residents. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>In 2023, violent crime surged by 21%, compared to the previous year when the number of homicides plateaued at 120. Yet robberies spiked 38%, and motor vehicle theft jumped 45%, according to Oakland Police Department end-of-year data.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a written statement, Mayor Thao’s office said she would “take the time that is necessary to select the person that will lead the Oakland Police Department.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She did not rule out the possibility of once again rejecting the list in its entirety.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dissatisfaction with how the city has handled crime has also contributed to recall efforts against both Mayor Thao and Alameda County District Attorney Pamela Price.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During the forum, many of the candidates shared common themes in their responses, such as a commitment to address residents’ concerns, collaborating with the Police Commission and federal monitor to complete the reform goals for the department — and a desire to boost officer morale.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yet responses differed in their approaches to these goals.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>Louis Molina\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Molina emphasized the importance of not relying on police to solve every problem within a city. He said he would work with social service and public health agencies to divert cases of individuals suffering from mental health or substance abuse problems.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When you come from a totally enforcement strategy to deal with crime and overly populating the justice system with individuals that are driven to that because of other issues, you’re not doing any help but having the person cycle through a justice system, when what they really need is more of a public health solution,” Molina said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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Gavin Newsom announced plans on Thursday to send state prosecutors to Oakland as part of his latest effort to crack down on rising crime in the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The move, in partnership with the state Attorney General’s Office, comes on the heels of the governor’s decision announced just days earlier to send \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11974920/newsom-to-deploy-120-chp-officers-to-fight-crime-surge-in-oakland\">120 California Highway Patrol officers\u003c/a> to Oakland, where \u003ca href=\"https://cityofoakland2.app.box.com/s/sjiq7usfy27gy9dfe51hp8arz5l1ixad/file/1404598604813\">violent crimes\u003c/a> — including assaults, robberies and retail theft — have spiked even as they have been on the wane in many other California cities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The additional attorneys will help the Alameda County District Attorney’s Office prosecute suspects arrested for “serious and complex crimes,” according to the governor’s office.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“An arrest isn’t enough,” Newsom said in a statement. “Justice demands that suspects are appropriately prosecuted. Whether it’s ‘\u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/sf/article/car-break-in-tips-18381721.php\">bipping\u003c/a>’ or carjacking, attempted murder or fentanyl trafficking, individuals must be held accountable for their crimes using the full and appropriate weight of the law.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Facing criticism from conservatives over his handling of crime in the state, Newsom has recently toughened his stance on the issue, \u003ca href=\"https://www.gov.ca.gov/2024/01/09/property-crime-framework/\">last month calling for new legislation \u003c/a>to expand criminal penalties for property crimes — even as he has so far \u003ca href=\"https://www.politico.com/news/2024/01/09/newsoms-property-crime-package-sidesteps-prop-47-00134448#:~:text=The%20governor%20is%20asking%20for,a%20contentious%20voter%2Dpassed%20initiative.\">sidestepped demands to reform Proposition 47\u003c/a>, the 2014 measure that reduced certain drug and theft crimes from felonies to misdemeanors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Alameda County District Attorney Pamela Price, who took office last year as a progressive reformer and now faces a recall campaign, said she appreciated the additional resources to prosecute some of the most prolific violent crimes, including those involving drug trafficking and auto theft.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She noted, however, that it is “regrettably, not a large operation” and likely would only include three Southern California-based prosecutors from the California National Guard, who she said were “very experienced” and would work under the direction of one of her senior attorneys.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think there’s a national perception that Oakland is in crisis,” Price told reporters on Thursday, noting that the offer of legal assistance was initiated by the governor’s office, not by her. “And as the governor pointed out, we’re experiencing a rise in crime. 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Gavin Newsom on Tuesday announced plans to deploy 120 California Highway Patrol officers in and around Oakland as part of a “surge operation” to crack down on theft and violent crime in the city and surrounding area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What’s happening in this beautiful city and surrounding area is alarming and unacceptable,” Newsom \u003ca href=\"https://www.gov.ca.gov/2024/02/06/chp-surge-east-bay/\">said in a statement\u003c/a>, noting that as crime has dropped in many cities across the state — including \u003ca href=\"https://www.sf.gov/news/san-franciscos-public-safety-efforts-deliver-results-decline-crime-rates\">San Francisco\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://mayor.lacity.gov/news/lapd-reports-homicides-and-violent-crime-down-2023-mayor-bass-highlights-comprehensive\">Los Angeles\u003c/a> — it has continued to climb in Oakland. “I’m sending the California Highway Patrol to assist local efforts to restore a sense of safety that the hardworking people of Oakland and the East Bay demand and deserve.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The deployment will mark a nearly 900% increase in CHP personnel in Oakland and Alameda County, according to the statement, and amounts to almost 20% of the total number of OPD officers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Throughout the operation, the CHP’s efforts will include enforcement of auto theft, cargo theft, retail crime, and high-visibility proactive traffic enforcement in and around Oakland and Alameda County,” CHP spokesperson Jaime Coffee said. The strategy, he added, is to saturate the area with officers and investigators who will work directly with local law enforcement agencies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This will include CHP specialty units like narcotics-detecting K9 units and air support,” Coffee said. “CHP will also deploy license-plate reader technology to detect and recover stolen vehicles.”[aside label=\"More on Oakland crime issues\" postID=\"news_11974485,news_11961919,news_11928655\"]The governor’s move follows calls for assistance from a growing number of local organizations and politicians, including the Oakland Metropolitan Chamber of Commerce and Mayor Sheng Thao. Last month, a group of Oakland community leaders \u003ca href=\"https://www.kron4.com/news/bay-area/oakland-leaders-meet-with-gov-newsom-to-address-crime/\">traveled to Sacramento\u003c/a> to meet with the governor and request more crime-fighting resources.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A spate of recent headlines have focused on the city’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2023/12/14/us/oakland-crime-economy-homelessness.html\">rising crime rates, \u003c/a>economic woes, and the ongoing efforts to \u003ca href=\"https://oaklandside.org/2024/01/09/oakland-mayor-sheng-thao-recall-campaign/\">recall its mayor\u003c/a> and the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11966518/pamela-price-recall-alameda-potential\">county’s district attorney\u003c/a> — largely over crime concerns.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Violent crime in Oakland increased by 21% in 2023, compared to the previous year — with the number of homicides plateauing at 120 — while robberies climbed 38% and motor vehicle theft jumped 45%, \u003ca href=\"https://cityofoakland2.app.box.com/s/sjiq7usfy27gy9dfe51hp8arz5l1ixad/file/1404598604813\">according to Oakland Police Department end-of-year data\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The Oakland police has a ‘no chase’ policy. Most of the criminals, they are jumping from one city to another, and OPD cannot chase them,” said Carl Chan, president of the Oakland Chinatown Chamber of Commerce, who was among the group of community advocates that attended the January meeting with Newsom. “The CHP has the right to go into all the different cities within the state. So that is extremely helpful.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The deployment also comes after the Newsom administration late last year distributed over $267 million in grants to local police and sheriff’s departments and district attorney’s offices throughout California to fight organized retail theft. But Oakland received none of that funding because \u003ca href=\"https://www.ktvu.com/news/emails-texts-help-explain-how-oakland-missed-out-on-millions-to-fight-retail-theft\">it missed the application deadline,\u003c/a> a blunder that Thao later said she, as mayor, took “full responsibility for.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The governor brought that up one, two, three times,” said Robert Harris of the Oakland NAACP, who was also at the January meeting. “He talked about the missed deadline, and then about 10 minutes later, he said the same thing over, ‘We’ve made that available to you, and you didn’t file.'”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Facing criticism from conservatives over his handling of crime in the state, Newsom has recently toughened his stance on the issue, \u003ca href=\"https://www.gov.ca.gov/2024/01/09/property-crime-framework/\">last month calling for new legislation \u003c/a>to expand criminal penalties for property crimes — even as he has so far \u003ca href=\"https://www.politico.com/news/2024/01/09/newsoms-property-crime-package-sidesteps-prop-47-00134448#:~:text=The%20governor%20is%20asking%20for,a%20contentious%20voter%2Dpassed%20initiative.\">sidestepped demands to reform Proposition 47\u003c/a>, the 2014 measure that reduced certain drug and theft crimes from felonies to misdemeanors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The governor’s office last year also \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/eastbay/article/california-approves-oakland-bid-for-chp-officers-18274937.php\">sent six CHP officers\u003c/a> and a sergeant to Oakland to help with traffic enforcement and extended a $1.2 million loan to the city to install automated license-plate readers, leading to the arrest of 100 suspected criminals and the recovery of 193 stolen vehicles, it said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Newsom’s Tuesday statement, Thao welcomed the additional help from the state. She said Oakland was “hard at work turning the tide” on the city’s crime surge by increasing police recruitment, expanding investigations, and investing in violence intervention programs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m grateful for Gov. 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