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"content": "\u003cp>Oakland city councilmembers redirected $18 million proposed for police spending from the mayor’s budget to alternative methods of violence prevention when the council passed a $3.8 billion budget Thursday evening.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The vote came at about 5:30 p.m. following hours of public comment and discussion at a virtual meeting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"James Burch, policy director for the Anti Police-Terror Project\"]‘We’re talking about a police budget that is well over $300 million every year consistently and continues to increase — even this year.’[/pullquote]The cuts to police spending were made from Mayor Libby Schaaf’s proposed budget for fiscal years 2021-2023 released in May, which would have added two police academy classes to the usual four over the two-year budget cycle.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The mayor’s budget proposal was then amended by Council President Nikki Fortunato Bas and Councilmembers Carroll Fife, Dan Kalb and Noel Gallo. The amendment was what passed on Thursday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The budget passed today by the Oakland City Council makes bold investments to reimagine public safety through violence prevention and non-police strategies that I strongly support,” Schaaf said in a statement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Unfortunately, it also cuts 50 police officers who respond to Oaklanders’ 911 calls and enforce traffic safety,” Schaaf said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11879475\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11879475\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/RS50148_011_Oakland_JuneteenthShootingVigil_06222021-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/RS50148_011_Oakland_JuneteenthShootingVigil_06222021-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/RS50148_011_Oakland_JuneteenthShootingVigil_06222021-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/RS50148_011_Oakland_JuneteenthShootingVigil_06222021-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/RS50148_011_Oakland_JuneteenthShootingVigil_06222021-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/RS50148_011_Oakland_JuneteenthShootingVigil_06222021-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A few hundred people gathered at Lake Merritt for a vigil calling for peace on June 22, 2021, following the Juneteenth shooting that wounded seven people and left one man dead. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Six councilmembers voted in favor of the new budget, while Councilmembers Loren Taylor and Treva Reid opposed it because of concerns over an equitable distribution of city funds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Both Taylor and Reid represent East Oakland.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The changes come amid a historic increase in violence in the city, with at least 61 homicides so far this year — nearly all by firearms — up about 90% from a year ago, Oakland Police Chief LeRonne Armstrong said Wednesday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The violence was palpable last weekend when gunfire killed one and wounded at least six others in a shooting near Lake Merritt.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Armstrong reportedly said no number of officers at the lake would have prevented the tragedy and some councilmembers used that statement to bolster their argument for less spending on police.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11879449\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11879449\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/RS50143_006_Oakland_JuneteenthShootingVigil_06222021-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/RS50143_006_Oakland_JuneteenthShootingVigil_06222021-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/RS50143_006_Oakland_JuneteenthShootingVigil_06222021-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/RS50143_006_Oakland_JuneteenthShootingVigil_06222021-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/RS50143_006_Oakland_JuneteenthShootingVigil_06222021-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/RS50143_006_Oakland_JuneteenthShootingVigil_06222021-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Councilmember Nikki Fortunato Bas speaks at Lake Merritt during a vigil calling for peace on June 22, 2021, following the Juneteenth shooting that wounded seven people and left one man dead. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Many Oakland residents have been demanding less spending since the murder of George Floyd by police in Minneapolis, calling on city leaders to cut the Police Department’s budget by 50% and invest that money in alternatives to police.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One such group was the Anti Police-Terror Project. James Burch, policy director for the group, said the vote marked a tremendous victory after a six-year campaign. “And it speaks to how difficult it has been for us to gain traction and demand common sense out of the city council,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Burch highlighted that while police won’t be seeing that $18 million, it’s “a drop in the bucket.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re talking about a police budget that is well over $300 million every year consistently and continues to increase — even this year. And so it’s important that we maintain that perspective,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Oakland Councilmember Loren Taylor\"]‘We are asking people to jump out of an airplane without a parachute, promising to get to them before they need it to land.’[/pullquote]The previous two-year budget spent $665 million for police and constituted 19.6% of the city budget. The mayor’s proposed budget had slightly increased the total dollars for police to $692 million but decreased the percentage police use from the city budget to 17.9%.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>APTP has been calling on investments like \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11874272/build-something-powerful-oakland-aims-to-remove-police-from-some-nonviolent-911-calls\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Mobile Assistance Community Responders of Oakland\u003c/a>, also known as MACRO, which the council also supports.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Under a pilot program, trained MACRO personnel will respond to non-violent, non-criminal mental and behavioral health calls instead of police.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The budget passed Thursday will invest $4 million in MACRO.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11879450\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11879450\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/RS50164_027_Oakland_JuneteenthShootingVigil_06222021-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/RS50164_027_Oakland_JuneteenthShootingVigil_06222021-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/RS50164_027_Oakland_JuneteenthShootingVigil_06222021-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/RS50164_027_Oakland_JuneteenthShootingVigil_06222021-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/RS50164_027_Oakland_JuneteenthShootingVigil_06222021-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/RS50164_027_Oakland_JuneteenthShootingVigil_06222021-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Oakland Councilmember Carol Fife speaks at Lake Merritt during a vigil calling for peace on June 22, 2021, following the Juneteenth shooting that wounded seven people and left one man dead. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Although the investments in alternatives to police are expected to reduce violence, Taylor expressed concern that they are not proven or in place.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside tag=\"opd\" label=\"More on Oakland police\"]“We are asking people to jump out of an airplane without a parachute, promising to get to them before they need it to land,” Taylor said in a statement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Before the final vote, Reid put forth an amendment to add a third police academy class in the first year of the budget and reduce the number of classes to one in the second year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Reid expressed concern about redirecting the proposed police spending when bullets are flying into the homes of East Oaklanders who she represents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Reid’s amendment failed by a vote of 6-3, with Kalb, Taylor and Reid as the three votes in favor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This story includes reporting from Bay City News and KQED’s Raquel Maria Dillon and Julie Chang.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cp>Oakland Mayor Libby Schaaf’s\u003ca href=\"https://stories.opengov.com/oaklandca/published/lTrMIWK3R\"> proposed budget\u003c/a> for the coming fiscal year would nearly double the amount of money for police overtime, increasing the city’s law enforcement spending by almost 8% — even as city leaders last summer pledged to slash the department’s budget amid widespread racial justice protests.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Schaaf's proposed budget for the 2021-23 budget cycle, which\u003ca href=\"https://www.eastbaytimes.com/2021/05/11/oakland-mayors-proposed-budget-increases-police-spending/\"> she presented last Monday\u003c/a> to the Oakland City Council, includes about $61 million over the next two years for police overtime — up from roughly $32 million in the last two-year budget cycle.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote align=\"right\" size=\"medium\" citation=\"Ed Reiskin, Oakland city administrator\"]'If people are working so much that they can’t be effective and work safely, that’s my concern.'[/pullquote]That would increase total police spending from about $317 million this fiscal year to $341 million starting in July — or roughly 41% of the city's general fund — and then up to nearly $352 million the year after.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Schaaf's proposal, which she says “aligns with historical spending,” comes after a year of already hefty police overtime expenditures. In the 2020 calendar year, the city spent more than $35 million on police overtime, enabling more than 100 officers to more than double their base salaries, which raised total police personnel costs well above $250 million.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Overtime Windfall\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>That year, 73 officers and 63 sergeants earned more than Schaaf herself, whose own compensation package, including pay and benefits, was $337,140, according to city salary data obtained through a public records request.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Topping that list was Officer Timothy S. Dolan, who was the highest compensated employee in the department and the second-highest in all of city government. On top of his reported 2020 base salary of $134,080, Dolan earned more than $301,000 in overtime pay. That put his total compensation package, including health care and payments the city made into his pension fund, at $589,809.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The city has investigated the possibility that some of the highest-earning Oakland Police Department employees were taking advantage of the overtime system, said Oakland City Administrator Ed Reiskin. But he said no abuse has been found, as far as he is aware. Rather, he pointed to short staffing as the primary driver of overtime spending.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“My concern isn’t one officer making a lot of money. That’s not inherently problematic,” Reiskin said. “If people are working so much that they can’t be effective and work safely, that’s my concern.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last year, 64 OPD employees made over $100,000 in overtime alone.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Records show that many OPD employees brought in significant portions of their income through overtime work, in addition to lump-sum payments and other types of compensation. The data show that 107 OPD employees were paid more than double their base salary in 2020, including 17 who were paid more than triple, and five who were paid about quadruple.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That includes Officer Malcolm E. Miller, who brought home $362,000 last year (not including benefits), though his base salary was only $82,925.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Miller, Dolan and all other police personnel named in this story did not respond to emails requesting comment. OPD also would not comment and declined our requests to interview the officers.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>‘You’re Making a Choice’\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Sgt. Barry Donelan, president of the Oakland Police Officers' Association, said logging this many overtime hours suggests that these top earners volunteered for many additional assignments. The department regularly sends out emails to staff looking for officers willing to work overtime on special details or at public events, like Oakland A’s games, he noted.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label=\"related coverage\" tag=\"opd\"]“When you get to those kinds of numbers, you’re making a choice,” Donelan said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The city has policies intended to prevent officers from working too often. For example, OPD’s overtime policy states that department members who are ordered to work beyond their regular shifts are entitled to eight hours of rest before their next assignment begins. Members who work voluntary overtime are also supposed to have at least eight hours of rest between work periods, unless otherwise authorized by a commander. They are also supposed to take one day off each week, but a commander can override that.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The overtime policy places the burden of tracking rest periods on the officers, who are supposed to notify their managers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Donelan said that OPD management waives overtime restrictions to meet demands for services, especially during periods of frequent mass demonstrations, like the Black Lives Matter protests last summer after the murder of George Floyd by a Minneapolis police officer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those same protests led to mounting pressure to scale back police funding. In response, city leaders formed a task force to rethink the department's operations and make recommendations for cutting its annual budget by $150 million — or roughly half.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>History of Spending Over Budget\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>A 2019 city auditor’s\u003ca href=\"https://www.oaklandauditor.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/20190610_Performance-Audit_OPD-Overtime_Report.pdf\"> investigation\u003c/a> into OPD’s overtime use found that many officers worked a staggering number of off-duty hours. The report noted that police officers in San Francisco were not allowed to work more than 520 overtime hours each year. But in Oakland, 30% of officers exceeded that limit in the 2017-2018 fiscal year, when 24 sworn officers worked more than 1,249 overtime hours, and one member logged at least 2,600 hours.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The auditor recommended OPD establish an annual limit on how many overtime hours employees can work in one year. But the Schaaf administration disagreed, and when OPD implemented its new overtime policy in December, it did not include an annual limit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For over a decade, OPD has consistently spent millions more than the amount allotted by the city, mostly driven by overtime hours and other personnel spending. For example, in the 2019-2020 fiscal year, OPD spent a total of nearly $338 million, according to the city’s comprehensive annual financial \u003ca href=\"https://cao-94612.s3.amazonaws.com/documents/CAFR-2020.pdf\">analysis\u003c/a>. And in a report to the City Council \u003ca href=\"https://cao-94612.s3.amazonaws.com/documents/FY-2019-20-Q4-Rev-Exp-Agenda-Report-FINAL120720-002.pdf\">last October, \u003c/a>Oakland Director of Finance Margaret O’Brien wrote that OPD exceeded its general-purpose fund budget by more than $32 million.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And in recent years, the department has regularly paid out more than twice as much for overtime as the council has budgeted.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11874450\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1640px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/opd2.png\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11874450\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/opd2.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1640\" height=\"873\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/opd2.png 1640w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/opd2-800x426.png 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/opd2-1020x543.png 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/opd2-160x85.png 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/opd2-1536x818.png 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1640px) 100vw, 1640px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Source: Data from a March 2021 memo sent by Oakland Police Chief LeRonne Armstrong showing the difference between how much overtime the Oakland City Council approved in its budget versus how much OPD actually spent on overtime pay. The FY 2020-21 actual amount is a projection because the fiscal year has not ended. \u003ccite>(Matthew Green/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>As OPD continued to exceed its overtime budget in 2020, the city’s revenue plummeted due to the COVID-19 pandemic, prompting O’Brien to write \u003ca href=\"https://cao-94612.s3.amazonaws.com/documents/FY-2020-21-Q2-RE-Report.pdf\">in a February memo\u003c/a> that the city was “experiencing a financial crisis.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If the city continued to spend at the rate it did in 2020, she cautioned, it would drain its emergency reserves. “This situation puts the City in jeopardy of being unable to pay for its daily operations,” O’Brien wrote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She added that “personnel costs in the Police Department (OPD) is the primary area of overspending in the City’s budget.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2020, the city spent over $257 million on police department employee compensation, including base salaries, overtime, benefits, and other pay. That made up over 35% of citywide personnel spending that year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oakland Councilmember At Large Rebecca Kaplan said that last year’s OPD spending is the latest example of how Schaaf and Reiskin disregard spending restrictions laid out in the city’s budget and adopted by the council. They have given some city departments more than they were budgeted, and others less than they were budgeted, skirting the public budget process, she added.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Not only are they spending money that wasn’t authorized, and not only is this a violation of democracy, but the extra things that the administrator has been giving [OPD] without council approval are largely things that have nothing to do with public safety,” Kaplan said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She pointed out that OPD’s overtime spending was particularly egregious in 2020, blaming the department's heavy-handed response to Black Lives Matter protests in June.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a December 2020 memo, then-interim Police Chief Susan Manheimer, who has since been replaced by LeRonne Armstrong, wrote that the department spent nearly $2.5 million on protest activity “associated with Minneapolis Solidarity” by the end of June, and another $1.28 million on protest activity throughout the rest of the summer.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003cstrong>The Steep Costs of Backfilling \u003c/strong>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Demonstrations, however, weren’t the biggest reason for overtime spending last year. Manheimer’s December memo shows that backfill and shift extensions, which are largely used to maintain minimum patrol staffing of 35 officers per shift, had a much larger price tag. Those two categories cost the city $12.8 million in fiscal year 2019-20 and another $9.8 million so far in 2020-21.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Reiskin, the city administrator, said that OPD’s reliance on overtime to maintain minimum staffing levels speaks to a core problem: The department is too understaffed to fulfill all the services the city is demanding of its police. The city is budgeted to have 786 sworn police personnel, which he noted is significantly lower than in other cities of comparable population and level of violent crime. And that, he said, forces OPD to fill in the gaps by assigning overtime.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Further compounding the problem, the department last year had 47 sworn vacancies and 62 professional staff vacancies, Manheimer wrote in her memo.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Additionally, an uptick in homicides this year prompted Armstrong, the police chief, to recently create a\u003ca href=\"https://oaklandnorth.net/2021/04/05/oakland-police-create-new-division-to-address-murder-spike/\"> special division on violent crime\u003c/a>, which he filled by reassigning 60 officers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]In a March memo to the Oakland City Council, Armstrong wrote that as the department struggles to maintain its minimum patrol staff at 35 officers per shift, there is little capacity to assign officers to special assignments on their regular shift time. For that reason, he said, the department has “become almost entirely reliant on overtime” to address many specialized police details. That includes response teams focused on sideshows, areas with high levels of violent crime, homicide operations, Lake Merritt patrols, and traffic investigations, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many overtime assignments come from superiors as orders, Donelan, the union president, said. “The gripe I get more than anything is the guy who \u003cem>doesn’t \u003c/em>want to work overtime,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Donelan explained that overtime orders can come in different forms. A watch commander might hold an officer on the clock after realizing that not enough officers are coming in for the next shift. Or the chief might order a “one call” phone notification, in which an officer is reached at home and ordered to report to work.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Comp Time\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>The 2019 city audit identified another big reason for OPD's glut in overtime: Officers can choose to receive compensatory time off (comp time) instead of money as reimbursement for working overtime. Since overtime work is compensated at time and a half, an officer working 10 hours of overtime can elect to receive 15 hours of comp time. When an officer takes that paid time off, another officer has to fill in, most likely using more overtime.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11873804\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1007px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/comp.time_.png\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11873804\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/comp.time_.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1007\" height=\"445\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/comp.time_.png 1007w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/comp.time_-800x354.png 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/comp.time_-160x71.png 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1007px) 100vw, 1007px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">This figure, published in a 2019 report by the Oakland city auditor, shows how reimbursing overtime work with comp time can make overtime hours, and costs, soar. \u003ccite>(Courtesy Oakland City Auditor)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The 2019 audit reported that OPD officers are capped at 300 hours of comp time, the highest limit of any major city in California. Despite previous warnings from the city auditor about the comp time issue, the city did not address OPD’s high comp time accrual limit during its \u003ca href=\"https://www.oaklandca.gov/documents/union-contracts\">most recent negotiation\u003c/a> with the police officers union, which went into effect in December 2018. Since comp time accrual is part of the city’s agreement with the union, this system is set in stone until the next contract negotiation in 2024.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The audit noted that one specific officer was mostly responsible for determining the number of officers needed to staff events. It didn’t name the officer, but said he regularly assigned himself to work special events, and that he was the department’s second-highest overtime earner for five years in a row.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In December, the Schaaf administration implemented service cuts across departments to get a handle on the city’s overspending. Many of those cuts were to OPD overtime work, including sideshow enforcement, as well as some homicide and ceasefire operations, with personnel re-assigned to supplement understaffed patrol squads.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those cuts also included a reduction of police patrols in Oakland's Chinatown shortly before a streak of attacks against the Asian community in Oakland and other cities across the country.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote align=\"right\" size=\"medium\" citation=\"Sgt. Barry Donelan, president of the Oakland Police Officers' Association\"]'The challenge within the police department is that everything every day is the highest community priority. Our service load is continuing to rise.'[/pullquote]On April 12, the City Council passed a resolution to use federal relief funding to reverse some of the service cuts. After a four-month hiatus, the city said it would restore funding for OPD community safety ambassadors in Chinatown and other neighborhoods, foot-patrol officers and ceasefire operations. This came amid a wave of violence that hit the city in the first quarter of 2021, resulting in 34 homicides, triple the number recorded in the first quarter of 2020.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The challenge within the police department is that everything every day is the highest community priority,” Donelan said. “Our service load is continuing to rise.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That could change if the Oakland City Council adopts the recommendations of the \u003ca href=\"https://www.oaklandca.gov/topics/reimagining-public-safety\">Reimagining Public Safety Taskforce\u003c/a> that it created after last summer's protests. Among the task force’s proposals are shifting staffing from police to civilian workers for a range of services, including responses to mental health calls and internal affairs investigations.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>An Uncertain Future\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Schaaf’s proposed $341 million police budget for next year is a far cry from the Oakland City Council’s pledge last summer to cut OPD funding in half.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The proposed budget would fund six police recruiting academies in the next two years, bringing additional officers onto the force — a move Chief Armstrong argues will reduce overtime expenses by increasing the department’s capacity to cover assignments on regularly assigned time. It would also transfer OPD’s vehicle enforcement unit to the city’s transportation department, as recommended by the task force, and add $2.6 million in funding over two years to launch a program to dispatch community responders, instead of police, to non-violent emergency calls.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, the proposed budget does not incorporate other key recommendations of the task force, including staffing the 911 call center with employees from other departments.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Over the next six weeks, the Oakland City Council will decide what changes to make to Schaaf’s proposal before adopting the final two-year city budget.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I fully agree with the Reimagining Public Safety Taskforce recommendation that we need to cap OPD overtime,” said Councilmember Loren Taylor, who co-chairs the task force, at the May 10 council meeting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"What I want to do is roll up sleeves and figure out what is a realistic overtime to hold ourselves to,” Taylor added. “That's something we have never been able to do because we have never been honest about what past overtime expenditures were and therefore, we were setting ourselves up for failure the entire time.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This story comes to KQED through a partnership with the\u003c/em>\u003ca href=\"https://journalism.berkeley.edu/programs/mj/investigative-reporting/\"> \u003cem>Investigative Reporting Program\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003cem> at the UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>That would increase total police spending from about $317 million this fiscal year to $341 million starting in July — or roughly 41% of the city's general fund — and then up to nearly $352 million the year after.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Schaaf's proposal, which she says “aligns with historical spending,” comes after a year of already hefty police overtime expenditures. In the 2020 calendar year, the city spent more than $35 million on police overtime, enabling more than 100 officers to more than double their base salaries, which raised total police personnel costs well above $250 million.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Overtime Windfall\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>That year, 73 officers and 63 sergeants earned more than Schaaf herself, whose own compensation package, including pay and benefits, was $337,140, according to city salary data obtained through a public records request.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Topping that list was Officer Timothy S. Dolan, who was the highest compensated employee in the department and the second-highest in all of city government. On top of his reported 2020 base salary of $134,080, Dolan earned more than $301,000 in overtime pay. That put his total compensation package, including health care and payments the city made into his pension fund, at $589,809.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The city has investigated the possibility that some of the highest-earning Oakland Police Department employees were taking advantage of the overtime system, said Oakland City Administrator Ed Reiskin. But he said no abuse has been found, as far as he is aware. Rather, he pointed to short staffing as the primary driver of overtime spending.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“My concern isn’t one officer making a lot of money. That’s not inherently problematic,” Reiskin said. “If people are working so much that they can’t be effective and work safely, that’s my concern.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last year, 64 OPD employees made over $100,000 in overtime alone.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Records show that many OPD employees brought in significant portions of their income through overtime work, in addition to lump-sum payments and other types of compensation. The data show that 107 OPD employees were paid more than double their base salary in 2020, including 17 who were paid more than triple, and five who were paid about quadruple.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That includes Officer Malcolm E. Miller, who brought home $362,000 last year (not including benefits), though his base salary was only $82,925.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Miller, Dolan and all other police personnel named in this story did not respond to emails requesting comment. OPD also would not comment and declined our requests to interview the officers.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>‘You’re Making a Choice’\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Sgt. Barry Donelan, president of the Oakland Police Officers' Association, said logging this many overtime hours suggests that these top earners volunteered for many additional assignments. The department regularly sends out emails to staff looking for officers willing to work overtime on special details or at public events, like Oakland A’s games, he noted.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>“When you get to those kinds of numbers, you’re making a choice,” Donelan said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The city has policies intended to prevent officers from working too often. For example, OPD’s overtime policy states that department members who are ordered to work beyond their regular shifts are entitled to eight hours of rest before their next assignment begins. Members who work voluntary overtime are also supposed to have at least eight hours of rest between work periods, unless otherwise authorized by a commander. They are also supposed to take one day off each week, but a commander can override that.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The overtime policy places the burden of tracking rest periods on the officers, who are supposed to notify their managers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Donelan said that OPD management waives overtime restrictions to meet demands for services, especially during periods of frequent mass demonstrations, like the Black Lives Matter protests last summer after the murder of George Floyd by a Minneapolis police officer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those same protests led to mounting pressure to scale back police funding. In response, city leaders formed a task force to rethink the department's operations and make recommendations for cutting its annual budget by $150 million — or roughly half.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>History of Spending Over Budget\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>A 2019 city auditor’s\u003ca href=\"https://www.oaklandauditor.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/20190610_Performance-Audit_OPD-Overtime_Report.pdf\"> investigation\u003c/a> into OPD’s overtime use found that many officers worked a staggering number of off-duty hours. The report noted that police officers in San Francisco were not allowed to work more than 520 overtime hours each year. But in Oakland, 30% of officers exceeded that limit in the 2017-2018 fiscal year, when 24 sworn officers worked more than 1,249 overtime hours, and one member logged at least 2,600 hours.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The auditor recommended OPD establish an annual limit on how many overtime hours employees can work in one year. But the Schaaf administration disagreed, and when OPD implemented its new overtime policy in December, it did not include an annual limit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For over a decade, OPD has consistently spent millions more than the amount allotted by the city, mostly driven by overtime hours and other personnel spending. For example, in the 2019-2020 fiscal year, OPD spent a total of nearly $338 million, according to the city’s comprehensive annual financial \u003ca href=\"https://cao-94612.s3.amazonaws.com/documents/CAFR-2020.pdf\">analysis\u003c/a>. And in a report to the City Council \u003ca href=\"https://cao-94612.s3.amazonaws.com/documents/FY-2019-20-Q4-Rev-Exp-Agenda-Report-FINAL120720-002.pdf\">last October, \u003c/a>Oakland Director of Finance Margaret O’Brien wrote that OPD exceeded its general-purpose fund budget by more than $32 million.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And in recent years, the department has regularly paid out more than twice as much for overtime as the council has budgeted.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11874450\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1640px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/opd2.png\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11874450\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/opd2.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1640\" height=\"873\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/opd2.png 1640w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/opd2-800x426.png 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/opd2-1020x543.png 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/opd2-160x85.png 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/opd2-1536x818.png 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1640px) 100vw, 1640px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Source: Data from a March 2021 memo sent by Oakland Police Chief LeRonne Armstrong showing the difference between how much overtime the Oakland City Council approved in its budget versus how much OPD actually spent on overtime pay. The FY 2020-21 actual amount is a projection because the fiscal year has not ended. \u003ccite>(Matthew Green/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>As OPD continued to exceed its overtime budget in 2020, the city’s revenue plummeted due to the COVID-19 pandemic, prompting O’Brien to write \u003ca href=\"https://cao-94612.s3.amazonaws.com/documents/FY-2020-21-Q2-RE-Report.pdf\">in a February memo\u003c/a> that the city was “experiencing a financial crisis.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If the city continued to spend at the rate it did in 2020, she cautioned, it would drain its emergency reserves. “This situation puts the City in jeopardy of being unable to pay for its daily operations,” O’Brien wrote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She added that “personnel costs in the Police Department (OPD) is the primary area of overspending in the City’s budget.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2020, the city spent over $257 million on police department employee compensation, including base salaries, overtime, benefits, and other pay. That made up over 35% of citywide personnel spending that year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oakland Councilmember At Large Rebecca Kaplan said that last year’s OPD spending is the latest example of how Schaaf and Reiskin disregard spending restrictions laid out in the city’s budget and adopted by the council. They have given some city departments more than they were budgeted, and others less than they were budgeted, skirting the public budget process, she added.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Not only are they spending money that wasn’t authorized, and not only is this a violation of democracy, but the extra things that the administrator has been giving [OPD] without council approval are largely things that have nothing to do with public safety,” Kaplan said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She pointed out that OPD’s overtime spending was particularly egregious in 2020, blaming the department's heavy-handed response to Black Lives Matter protests in June.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a December 2020 memo, then-interim Police Chief Susan Manheimer, who has since been replaced by LeRonne Armstrong, wrote that the department spent nearly $2.5 million on protest activity “associated with Minneapolis Solidarity” by the end of June, and another $1.28 million on protest activity throughout the rest of the summer.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003cstrong>The Steep Costs of Backfilling \u003c/strong>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Demonstrations, however, weren’t the biggest reason for overtime spending last year. Manheimer’s December memo shows that backfill and shift extensions, which are largely used to maintain minimum patrol staffing of 35 officers per shift, had a much larger price tag. Those two categories cost the city $12.8 million in fiscal year 2019-20 and another $9.8 million so far in 2020-21.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Reiskin, the city administrator, said that OPD’s reliance on overtime to maintain minimum staffing levels speaks to a core problem: The department is too understaffed to fulfill all the services the city is demanding of its police. The city is budgeted to have 786 sworn police personnel, which he noted is significantly lower than in other cities of comparable population and level of violent crime. And that, he said, forces OPD to fill in the gaps by assigning overtime.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Further compounding the problem, the department last year had 47 sworn vacancies and 62 professional staff vacancies, Manheimer wrote in her memo.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Additionally, an uptick in homicides this year prompted Armstrong, the police chief, to recently create a\u003ca href=\"https://oaklandnorth.net/2021/04/05/oakland-police-create-new-division-to-address-murder-spike/\"> special division on violent crime\u003c/a>, which he filled by reassigning 60 officers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>In a March memo to the Oakland City Council, Armstrong wrote that as the department struggles to maintain its minimum patrol staff at 35 officers per shift, there is little capacity to assign officers to special assignments on their regular shift time. For that reason, he said, the department has “become almost entirely reliant on overtime” to address many specialized police details. That includes response teams focused on sideshows, areas with high levels of violent crime, homicide operations, Lake Merritt patrols, and traffic investigations, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many overtime assignments come from superiors as orders, Donelan, the union president, said. “The gripe I get more than anything is the guy who \u003cem>doesn’t \u003c/em>want to work overtime,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Donelan explained that overtime orders can come in different forms. A watch commander might hold an officer on the clock after realizing that not enough officers are coming in for the next shift. Or the chief might order a “one call” phone notification, in which an officer is reached at home and ordered to report to work.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Comp Time\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>The 2019 city audit identified another big reason for OPD's glut in overtime: Officers can choose to receive compensatory time off (comp time) instead of money as reimbursement for working overtime. Since overtime work is compensated at time and a half, an officer working 10 hours of overtime can elect to receive 15 hours of comp time. When an officer takes that paid time off, another officer has to fill in, most likely using more overtime.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11873804\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1007px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/comp.time_.png\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11873804\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/comp.time_.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1007\" height=\"445\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/comp.time_.png 1007w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/comp.time_-800x354.png 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/comp.time_-160x71.png 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1007px) 100vw, 1007px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">This figure, published in a 2019 report by the Oakland city auditor, shows how reimbursing overtime work with comp time can make overtime hours, and costs, soar. \u003ccite>(Courtesy Oakland City Auditor)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The 2019 audit reported that OPD officers are capped at 300 hours of comp time, the highest limit of any major city in California. Despite previous warnings from the city auditor about the comp time issue, the city did not address OPD’s high comp time accrual limit during its \u003ca href=\"https://www.oaklandca.gov/documents/union-contracts\">most recent negotiation\u003c/a> with the police officers union, which went into effect in December 2018. Since comp time accrual is part of the city’s agreement with the union, this system is set in stone until the next contract negotiation in 2024.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The audit noted that one specific officer was mostly responsible for determining the number of officers needed to staff events. It didn’t name the officer, but said he regularly assigned himself to work special events, and that he was the department’s second-highest overtime earner for five years in a row.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In December, the Schaaf administration implemented service cuts across departments to get a handle on the city’s overspending. Many of those cuts were to OPD overtime work, including sideshow enforcement, as well as some homicide and ceasefire operations, with personnel re-assigned to supplement understaffed patrol squads.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those cuts also included a reduction of police patrols in Oakland's Chinatown shortly before a streak of attacks against the Asian community in Oakland and other cities across the country.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>On April 12, the City Council passed a resolution to use federal relief funding to reverse some of the service cuts. After a four-month hiatus, the city said it would restore funding for OPD community safety ambassadors in Chinatown and other neighborhoods, foot-patrol officers and ceasefire operations. This came amid a wave of violence that hit the city in the first quarter of 2021, resulting in 34 homicides, triple the number recorded in the first quarter of 2020.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The challenge within the police department is that everything every day is the highest community priority,” Donelan said. “Our service load is continuing to rise.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That could change if the Oakland City Council adopts the recommendations of the \u003ca href=\"https://www.oaklandca.gov/topics/reimagining-public-safety\">Reimagining Public Safety Taskforce\u003c/a> that it created after last summer's protests. Among the task force’s proposals are shifting staffing from police to civilian workers for a range of services, including responses to mental health calls and internal affairs investigations.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>An Uncertain Future\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Schaaf’s proposed $341 million police budget for next year is a far cry from the Oakland City Council’s pledge last summer to cut OPD funding in half.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The proposed budget would fund six police recruiting academies in the next two years, bringing additional officers onto the force — a move Chief Armstrong argues will reduce overtime expenses by increasing the department’s capacity to cover assignments on regularly assigned time. It would also transfer OPD’s vehicle enforcement unit to the city’s transportation department, as recommended by the task force, and add $2.6 million in funding over two years to launch a program to dispatch community responders, instead of police, to non-violent emergency calls.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, the proposed budget does not incorporate other key recommendations of the task force, including staffing the 911 call center with employees from other departments.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Over the next six weeks, the Oakland City Council will decide what changes to make to Schaaf’s proposal before adopting the final two-year city budget.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I fully agree with the Reimagining Public Safety Taskforce recommendation that we need to cap OPD overtime,” said Councilmember Loren Taylor, who co-chairs the task force, at the May 10 council meeting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"What I want to do is roll up sleeves and figure out what is a realistic overtime to hold ourselves to,” Taylor added. “That's something we have never been able to do because we have never been honest about what past overtime expenditures were and therefore, we were setting ourselves up for failure the entire time.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This story comes to KQED through a partnership with the\u003c/em>\u003ca href=\"https://journalism.berkeley.edu/programs/mj/investigative-reporting/\"> \u003cem>Investigative Reporting Program\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003cem> at the UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism. A version of the story first appeared in the publication\u003c/em>\u003ca href=\"https://oaklandnorth.net/2021/04/28/oakland-police-overtime-payments/\"> \u003cem>Oakland North\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003cem> on April 28, 2021.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>Bay Area voters delivered strong support to a half-dozen measures that aim to strengthen independent oversight of local law enforcement, many spurred by a national movement demanding police reform.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The local measures come after the California Legislature this summer \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/forum/2010101879558/major-police-reform-bills-fail-in-california-legislature\">failed to pass\u003c/a> several major statewide police accountability bills — including one to remove police officers who commit serious misconduct — after facing strong opposition from law enforcement groups.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here’s a rundown of each of those measures and how they fared on Tuesday:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"#S1\">Oakland: Measure S1\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"#D\">San Francisco: Proposition D\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"#E\">San Francisco: Proposition E\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"#II\">Berkeley: Measure II\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"#G\">San Jose: Measure G\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"#P\">Sonoma County: Measure P\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003ch3>\u003ca id=\"S1\">\u003c/a>Oakland: Measure S1\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11843542\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11843542\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/RS43436_026_KQED_Oakland_GeorgeFloydProtest_05292020-qut.jpg\" alt=\"Demonstators and OPD\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/RS43436_026_KQED_Oakland_GeorgeFloydProtest_05292020-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/RS43436_026_KQED_Oakland_GeorgeFloydProtest_05292020-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/RS43436_026_KQED_Oakland_GeorgeFloydProtest_05292020-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/RS43436_026_KQED_Oakland_GeorgeFloydProtest_05292020-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/RS43436_026_KQED_Oakland_GeorgeFloydProtest_05292020-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Demonstrators face a police line on May 29, 2020 in Oakland during protests following the police killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>More than 80% of Oakland voters approved an effort to boost oversight of the city’s police force as of late Tuesday night. \u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/24-Measure-S1-City-of-Oakland-Police-Commussion.pdf\">Measure S1\u003c/a> — backed unanimously by the Oakland City Council — creates a new independent Office of the Inspector General and increases the authority of both the Oakland Police Commission and the Community Police Review Agency, which investigates complaints of officer misconduct.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The measure allows the commission and CPRA to hire attorneys independently of the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The measure also requires Oakland’s police chief to respond to the commission’s requests for information and allows the City Council to suspend members of the commission for cause.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The independent OIG is tasked with reviewing cases of police misconduct and submitting reports to the Police Commission and the Oakland City Council. It also oversees compliance with a 2003 settlement in a federal civil rights lawsuit — known as the Riders case — when the city and Police Department entered into an agreement to address serious allegations of police misconduct.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is such an important issue,” City Council President Rebecca Kaplan said late Tuesday night, “that there be a trusted decision maker that isn’t part of the department so that you can build that trust and ensure accountability.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Changes under Measure S1 touch on several sources of recent controversy in the Oakland Police Department. Former Chief Anne Kirkpatrick, fired in February, has targeted the Police Commission and the court-appointed federal monitor in a lawsuit alleging she was retaliated against for reporting malfeasance by commissioners and disagreeing with the monitor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003ca id=\"D\">\u003c/a>San Francisco: Proposition D\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11843548\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11843548\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/RS21357_20161005_100742-qut.jpg\" alt=\"seal of the SF sheriff's department\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1440\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/RS21357_20161005_100742-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/RS21357_20161005_100742-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/RS21357_20161005_100742-qut-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/RS21357_20161005_100742-qut-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/RS21357_20161005_100742-qut-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/RS21357_20161005_100742-qut-1832x1374.jpg 1832w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/RS21357_20161005_100742-qut-1376x1032.jpg 1376w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/RS21357_20161005_100742-qut-1044x783.jpg 1044w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/RS21357_20161005_100742-qut-632x474.jpg 632w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/RS21357_20161005_100742-qut-536x402.jpg 536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Proposition D comes in the wake of several high-profile allegations of misconduct in the San Francisco Sheriff’s Department. \u003ccite>(Alex Emslie/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>San Francisco voters showed up with strong support for independent \u003ca href=\"https://voterguide.sfelections.org/en/sheriff-oversight\">oversight of the county Sheriff’s Department\u003c/a>, with more than 67% of ballots counted Tuesday in favor of Proposition D.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label=\"related coverage\" tag=\"police-reform\"]The proposition creates two new bodies to bring independent oversight to the San Francisco County Sheriff’s Department. The Office of Inspector General investigates misconduct within the department, and a seven-member oversight board will make policy recommendations regarding department operations, complaints against deputies and in-custody deaths. The sheriff, though, retains authority to determine any discipline against deputies and other staff.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The measure, placed on the ballot by a unanimous vote of the Board of Supervisors, comes after major misconduct in the Sheriff’s Department. Deputies were criminally charged in 2016 with \u003ca href=\"https://www.vice.com/en/article/qv5enm/san-francisco-sheriffs-deputies-accused-of-forcing-jailed-inmates-to-participate-in-fight-club\">arranging gladiator-style fights\u003c/a> between inmates in San Francisco County Jail. A subsequent botched internal investigation resulted in those charges being dropped.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last year, the department entered into an agreement allowing the San Francisco Department of Police Accountability to investigate a number existing allegations of misconduct. Proposition D, however, creates an oversight structure for the county that is separate from city Police Department oversight.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As elected officials, California sheriffs have typically seen less civilian oversight than local police departments, which are accountable to mayors and city councils. That may be changing. \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/uncategorized/2019/09/sheriff-power/\">Assembly Bill 1185, \u003c/a>which Gov. Gavin Newsom approved last month, codifies every county’s ability to establish a sheriff oversight board and inspector general’s office with subpoena powers.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003ca id=\"E\">\u003c/a>San Francisco: Proposition E\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11843551\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11843551\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/RS40522_IMG_2406-qut.jpg\" alt=\"SFPD chief William Scott\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/RS40522_IMG_2406-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/RS40522_IMG_2406-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/RS40522_IMG_2406-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/RS40522_IMG_2406-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/RS40522_IMG_2406-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">San Francisco Police Chief William Scott listens during a town hall meeting at César Chávez Elementary School in the wake of a December 2019 police shooting in the Mission District. \u003ccite>(Sheraz Sadiq/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Voters in San Francisco were also approving \u003ca href=\"https://voterguide.sfelections.org/en/police-staffing\">Proposition E\u003c/a> with more than 71% in favor as of Wednesday. The measure amends the city charter to scrap a mandatory minimum of 1,971 full-duty sworn police officers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The proposition requires the department to submit a report and recommendation for police staffing levels every two years to the Police Commission. The commission would then have to consider the report when approving the department’s budget.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the past, San Francisco would have been in violation of its charter if it fell below the minimum staffing level, which the officers’ union charged that it routinely has in opposition to the measure.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The passage of Proposition E allows city leaders — including the mayor, supervisors and the Police Commission — to hire fewer full-duty officers, if they choose to.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The effort aligns with recent proposals from Mayor London Breed and Police Chief Bill Scott that aim to divert responses to some mental health-related issues and other non-violent complaints away from armed police officers.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003ca id=\"II\">\u003c/a>Berkeley: Measure II\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11843553\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1440px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11843553\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/RS13484_460085990-e1418082501731-qut.jpg\" alt=\"Berkeley police line\" width=\"1440\" height=\"960\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/RS13484_460085990-e1418082501731-qut.jpg 1440w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/RS13484_460085990-e1418082501731-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/RS13484_460085990-e1418082501731-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/RS13484_460085990-e1418082501731-qut-160x107.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1440px) 100vw, 1440px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Berkeley police officers form a line on Telegraph Avenue during protests in December 2014 following a New York jury’s decision not to indict a police officer in the chokehold death of Eric Garner. \u003ccite>(Stephen Lam/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Berkeley voters were in support of \u003ca href=\"https://www.cityofberkeley.info/uploadedFiles/Clerk/Elections/Police%20Charter%20Question%20and%20Text.pdf\">Measure II\u003c/a> by a 5-to-1 margin Tuesday, which gives the city the go-ahead to scrap its existing Police Commission and replace it by early 2022 with a nine-member independent oversight body and director. The new Police Accountability Board will have the authority to access internal police records and seek officer testimony, investigate complaints filed by the public and recommend discipline. The board will also advise on the hiring of future police chiefs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Introduced by a coalition of Berkeley police officials, City Council members and current oversight commissioners, Measure II will also give the public \u003ca href=\"https://www.kalw.org/post/berkeley-measure-ii-police-accountability-board#stream/0\">more time\u003c/a> to file complaints against police officers and lower the burden of proof in the process of investigating those allegations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Berkeley was an early adopter of civilian police oversight. Its current Police Review Commission was established in 1973, long before most other cities had even considered such entities. But some Berkeley residents and city leaders say it now lacks the authority of oversight bodies in cities like San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003ca id=\"G\">\u003c/a>San Jose: Measure G\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11828875\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1280px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11828875\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/IMG_8296.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1280\" height=\"886\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/IMG_8296.jpg 1280w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/IMG_8296-800x554.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/IMG_8296-1020x706.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/IMG_8296-160x111.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1280px) 100vw, 1280px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Police officers in riot gear block off a street in downtown San Jose on May 29, 2020, in advance of a large protest against police brutality, spurred by the death of George Floyd at the hands of Minneapolis police. \u003ccite>(Adhiti Bandlamudi/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>San Jose voters were passing \u003ca href=\"https://www.sanjoseca.gov/your-government/appointees/city-clerk/elections/measure-g-charter-amendment\">Measure G\u003c/a> with 78% yes votes as of Wednesday. It institutes a handful of fairly wide-ranging changes in the city — some unrelated to police accountability — including changing the size of the Planning Commission and allowing the council to establish different timelines for redistricting if U.S. census results arrive late.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Concerning police oversight, Measure G will expand the review authority of the Independent Police Auditor. The IPA will now be able to review administrative investigations initiated by the Police Department against its officers and gain access to unredacted records related to police shootings and other serious use-of-force incidents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The measure comes as the San Jose Police Department is being sued for its officers’ use of tear gas and projectiles against mostly peaceful demonstrators during the George Floyd protests in the city in late May and early June.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A scandal also erupted this summer when a \u003ca href=\"https://www.sanjoseinside.com/news/sjpd-officers-mock-muslims-blm-protesters-on-facebook/\">blogger exposed\u003c/a> that current and former San Jose police officers swapped bigoted messages in a Facebook group, prompting the department to place four officers on leave. The Santa Clara County district attorney has since \u003ca href=\"https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2020-10-22/social-media-scandal-santa-clara-police-charges-dropped\">announced plans to dismiss charges\u003c/a> in 14 criminal cases tainted by those officers’ involvement.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003ca id=\"P\">\u003c/a>Sonoma County: Measure P\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11818497\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11818497\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/05/Blount-screen-shot-1.jpg\" alt=\"A screen shot from body camera video of the Nov. 27 in-custody of death of David Ward shows former Sonoma County Sheriff's Deputy Charles Blount as he grabs Ward by the head, a few seconds before slamming Ward's face against the car's door frame.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"988\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/05/Blount-screen-shot-1.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/05/Blount-screen-shot-1-160x82.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/05/Blount-screen-shot-1-800x412.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/05/Blount-screen-shot-1-1020x525.jpg 1020w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A screenshot from body-camera video of the Nov. 27 police killing of David Glen Ward shows former Sonoma County Sheriff’s Deputy Charles Blount as he grabs Ward by the head, a few seconds before slamming Ward’s face against the car’s door frame. \u003ccite>(Via Sonoma County Sheriff)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>A Sonoma County \u003ca href=\"http://sonomacounty.ca.gov/CRA/Registrar-of-Voters/Elections/PDFs/Measure-P-IOLERO-November-3-2020/\">measure\u003c/a> seeking to increase power of the county’s independent oversight of its Sheriff’s Office was leading by wide margin Wednesday night. Over two-thirds of votes counted so far are in favor of the measure that drew strong opposition from the sheriff and deputies’ union.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m really hopeful that now that we have this outcome, they’ll shift gears and take the hand that’s been held out to them so we can improve these relationships,” said Jerry Threet, former director of Sonoma County’s Independent Office of Law Enforcement Outreach and supporter of Measure P.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The measure increases powers and budget of the office, which was created in the years following the 2013 killing of 13-year-old \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/andy-lopez/\">Andy Lopez\u003c/a>. Backers of the measure say the office known as IOLERO was underfunded from the start and has relied on the voluntary cooperation of the sheriff to provide access and allow for any substantive oversight.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The measure, which was put on the ballot by a unanimous vote of the Sonoma County Board of Supervisors, requires the sheriff to cooperate with investigations and gives IOLERO authority to obtain evidence, contact witnesses and subpoena records. The office would also be able to publish body camera footage on its website and recommend disciplinary actions for officers under investigation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Measure P also increases funding for the office, requiring that its budget be equal to 1% of the overall sheriff’s budget, and prohibits its directors from being removed unless approved by a four-fifths vote of the Board of Supervisors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The measure comes a year after former Sheriff’s Deputy Charles Blount, who had a history of misusing neck holds, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11789667/in-custody-death-sonoma-county-deputy-lied-in-court-about-past-carotid-hold\">was caught on body camera video\u003c/a> slamming a man’s head into a car door frame following a chase after attempting to put him in a headlock through the driver’s side window.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The man, David Glen Ward, who had a disability, subsequently died from his injuries according to coroner’s findings, which also found methamphetamine in his system.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sonoma County Sheriff Mark Essick moved to fire Blount, but the deputy was allowed to retire before he was officially disciplined and is now presumably collecting a pension. A criminal investigation into Ward’s death took months to complete and the Sonoma County district attorney has yet to make a charging decision in the case.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Measure P was strongly \u003ca href=\"https://www.pressdemocrat.com/article/news/campaign-heats-up-on-sonoma-county-ballot-measure-to-beef-up-law-enforcemen/\">opposed\u003c/a> by the sheriff and the union representing its deputies. Its funding provision is expected to be challenged in court.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Alex Emslie and Kate Wolffe of KQED News contributed reporting to this article.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Bay Area voters delivered strong support to a half-dozen measures that aim to strengthen independent oversight of local law enforcement, many spurred by a national movement demanding police reform.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The local measures come after the California Legislature this summer \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/forum/2010101879558/major-police-reform-bills-fail-in-california-legislature\">failed to pass\u003c/a> several major statewide police accountability bills — including one to remove police officers who commit serious misconduct — after facing strong opposition from law enforcement groups.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here’s a rundown of each of those measures and how they fared on Tuesday:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"#S1\">Oakland: Measure S1\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"#D\">San Francisco: Proposition D\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"#E\">San Francisco: Proposition E\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"#II\">Berkeley: Measure II\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"#G\">San Jose: Measure G\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"#P\">Sonoma County: Measure P\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003ch3>\u003ca id=\"S1\">\u003c/a>Oakland: Measure S1\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11843542\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11843542\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/RS43436_026_KQED_Oakland_GeorgeFloydProtest_05292020-qut.jpg\" alt=\"Demonstators and OPD\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/RS43436_026_KQED_Oakland_GeorgeFloydProtest_05292020-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/RS43436_026_KQED_Oakland_GeorgeFloydProtest_05292020-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/RS43436_026_KQED_Oakland_GeorgeFloydProtest_05292020-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/RS43436_026_KQED_Oakland_GeorgeFloydProtest_05292020-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/RS43436_026_KQED_Oakland_GeorgeFloydProtest_05292020-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Demonstrators face a police line on May 29, 2020 in Oakland during protests following the police killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>More than 80% of Oakland voters approved an effort to boost oversight of the city’s police force as of late Tuesday night. \u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/24-Measure-S1-City-of-Oakland-Police-Commussion.pdf\">Measure S1\u003c/a> — backed unanimously by the Oakland City Council — creates a new independent Office of the Inspector General and increases the authority of both the Oakland Police Commission and the Community Police Review Agency, which investigates complaints of officer misconduct.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The measure allows the commission and CPRA to hire attorneys independently of the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The measure also requires Oakland’s police chief to respond to the commission’s requests for information and allows the City Council to suspend members of the commission for cause.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The independent OIG is tasked with reviewing cases of police misconduct and submitting reports to the Police Commission and the Oakland City Council. It also oversees compliance with a 2003 settlement in a federal civil rights lawsuit — known as the Riders case — when the city and Police Department entered into an agreement to address serious allegations of police misconduct.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is such an important issue,” City Council President Rebecca Kaplan said late Tuesday night, “that there be a trusted decision maker that isn’t part of the department so that you can build that trust and ensure accountability.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Changes under Measure S1 touch on several sources of recent controversy in the Oakland Police Department. Former Chief Anne Kirkpatrick, fired in February, has targeted the Police Commission and the court-appointed federal monitor in a lawsuit alleging she was retaliated against for reporting malfeasance by commissioners and disagreeing with the monitor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003ca id=\"D\">\u003c/a>San Francisco: Proposition D\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11843548\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11843548\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/RS21357_20161005_100742-qut.jpg\" alt=\"seal of the SF sheriff's department\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1440\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/RS21357_20161005_100742-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/RS21357_20161005_100742-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/RS21357_20161005_100742-qut-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/RS21357_20161005_100742-qut-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/RS21357_20161005_100742-qut-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/RS21357_20161005_100742-qut-1832x1374.jpg 1832w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/RS21357_20161005_100742-qut-1376x1032.jpg 1376w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/RS21357_20161005_100742-qut-1044x783.jpg 1044w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/RS21357_20161005_100742-qut-632x474.jpg 632w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/RS21357_20161005_100742-qut-536x402.jpg 536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Proposition D comes in the wake of several high-profile allegations of misconduct in the San Francisco Sheriff’s Department. \u003ccite>(Alex Emslie/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>San Francisco voters showed up with strong support for independent \u003ca href=\"https://voterguide.sfelections.org/en/sheriff-oversight\">oversight of the county Sheriff’s Department\u003c/a>, with more than 67% of ballots counted Tuesday in favor of Proposition D.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>The proposition creates two new bodies to bring independent oversight to the San Francisco County Sheriff’s Department. The Office of Inspector General investigates misconduct within the department, and a seven-member oversight board will make policy recommendations regarding department operations, complaints against deputies and in-custody deaths. The sheriff, though, retains authority to determine any discipline against deputies and other staff.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The measure, placed on the ballot by a unanimous vote of the Board of Supervisors, comes after major misconduct in the Sheriff’s Department. Deputies were criminally charged in 2016 with \u003ca href=\"https://www.vice.com/en/article/qv5enm/san-francisco-sheriffs-deputies-accused-of-forcing-jailed-inmates-to-participate-in-fight-club\">arranging gladiator-style fights\u003c/a> between inmates in San Francisco County Jail. A subsequent botched internal investigation resulted in those charges being dropped.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last year, the department entered into an agreement allowing the San Francisco Department of Police Accountability to investigate a number existing allegations of misconduct. Proposition D, however, creates an oversight structure for the county that is separate from city Police Department oversight.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As elected officials, California sheriffs have typically seen less civilian oversight than local police departments, which are accountable to mayors and city councils. That may be changing. \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/uncategorized/2019/09/sheriff-power/\">Assembly Bill 1185, \u003c/a>which Gov. Gavin Newsom approved last month, codifies every county’s ability to establish a sheriff oversight board and inspector general’s office with subpoena powers.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003ca id=\"E\">\u003c/a>San Francisco: Proposition E\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11843551\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11843551\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/RS40522_IMG_2406-qut.jpg\" alt=\"SFPD chief William Scott\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/RS40522_IMG_2406-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/RS40522_IMG_2406-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/RS40522_IMG_2406-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/RS40522_IMG_2406-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/RS40522_IMG_2406-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">San Francisco Police Chief William Scott listens during a town hall meeting at César Chávez Elementary School in the wake of a December 2019 police shooting in the Mission District. \u003ccite>(Sheraz Sadiq/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Voters in San Francisco were also approving \u003ca href=\"https://voterguide.sfelections.org/en/police-staffing\">Proposition E\u003c/a> with more than 71% in favor as of Wednesday. The measure amends the city charter to scrap a mandatory minimum of 1,971 full-duty sworn police officers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The proposition requires the department to submit a report and recommendation for police staffing levels every two years to the Police Commission. The commission would then have to consider the report when approving the department’s budget.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the past, San Francisco would have been in violation of its charter if it fell below the minimum staffing level, which the officers’ union charged that it routinely has in opposition to the measure.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The passage of Proposition E allows city leaders — including the mayor, supervisors and the Police Commission — to hire fewer full-duty officers, if they choose to.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The effort aligns with recent proposals from Mayor London Breed and Police Chief Bill Scott that aim to divert responses to some mental health-related issues and other non-violent complaints away from armed police officers.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003ca id=\"II\">\u003c/a>Berkeley: Measure II\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11843553\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1440px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11843553\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/RS13484_460085990-e1418082501731-qut.jpg\" alt=\"Berkeley police line\" width=\"1440\" height=\"960\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/RS13484_460085990-e1418082501731-qut.jpg 1440w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/RS13484_460085990-e1418082501731-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/RS13484_460085990-e1418082501731-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/RS13484_460085990-e1418082501731-qut-160x107.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1440px) 100vw, 1440px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Berkeley police officers form a line on Telegraph Avenue during protests in December 2014 following a New York jury’s decision not to indict a police officer in the chokehold death of Eric Garner. \u003ccite>(Stephen Lam/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Berkeley voters were in support of \u003ca href=\"https://www.cityofberkeley.info/uploadedFiles/Clerk/Elections/Police%20Charter%20Question%20and%20Text.pdf\">Measure II\u003c/a> by a 5-to-1 margin Tuesday, which gives the city the go-ahead to scrap its existing Police Commission and replace it by early 2022 with a nine-member independent oversight body and director. The new Police Accountability Board will have the authority to access internal police records and seek officer testimony, investigate complaints filed by the public and recommend discipline. The board will also advise on the hiring of future police chiefs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Introduced by a coalition of Berkeley police officials, City Council members and current oversight commissioners, Measure II will also give the public \u003ca href=\"https://www.kalw.org/post/berkeley-measure-ii-police-accountability-board#stream/0\">more time\u003c/a> to file complaints against police officers and lower the burden of proof in the process of investigating those allegations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Berkeley was an early adopter of civilian police oversight. Its current Police Review Commission was established in 1973, long before most other cities had even considered such entities. But some Berkeley residents and city leaders say it now lacks the authority of oversight bodies in cities like San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003ca id=\"G\">\u003c/a>San Jose: Measure G\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11828875\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1280px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11828875\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/IMG_8296.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1280\" height=\"886\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/IMG_8296.jpg 1280w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/IMG_8296-800x554.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/IMG_8296-1020x706.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/IMG_8296-160x111.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1280px) 100vw, 1280px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Police officers in riot gear block off a street in downtown San Jose on May 29, 2020, in advance of a large protest against police brutality, spurred by the death of George Floyd at the hands of Minneapolis police. \u003ccite>(Adhiti Bandlamudi/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>San Jose voters were passing \u003ca href=\"https://www.sanjoseca.gov/your-government/appointees/city-clerk/elections/measure-g-charter-amendment\">Measure G\u003c/a> with 78% yes votes as of Wednesday. It institutes a handful of fairly wide-ranging changes in the city — some unrelated to police accountability — including changing the size of the Planning Commission and allowing the council to establish different timelines for redistricting if U.S. census results arrive late.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Concerning police oversight, Measure G will expand the review authority of the Independent Police Auditor. The IPA will now be able to review administrative investigations initiated by the Police Department against its officers and gain access to unredacted records related to police shootings and other serious use-of-force incidents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The measure comes as the San Jose Police Department is being sued for its officers’ use of tear gas and projectiles against mostly peaceful demonstrators during the George Floyd protests in the city in late May and early June.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A scandal also erupted this summer when a \u003ca href=\"https://www.sanjoseinside.com/news/sjpd-officers-mock-muslims-blm-protesters-on-facebook/\">blogger exposed\u003c/a> that current and former San Jose police officers swapped bigoted messages in a Facebook group, prompting the department to place four officers on leave. The Santa Clara County district attorney has since \u003ca href=\"https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2020-10-22/social-media-scandal-santa-clara-police-charges-dropped\">announced plans to dismiss charges\u003c/a> in 14 criminal cases tainted by those officers’ involvement.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003ca id=\"P\">\u003c/a>Sonoma County: Measure P\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11818497\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11818497\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/05/Blount-screen-shot-1.jpg\" alt=\"A screen shot from body camera video of the Nov. 27 in-custody of death of David Ward shows former Sonoma County Sheriff's Deputy Charles Blount as he grabs Ward by the head, a few seconds before slamming Ward's face against the car's door frame.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"988\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/05/Blount-screen-shot-1.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/05/Blount-screen-shot-1-160x82.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/05/Blount-screen-shot-1-800x412.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/05/Blount-screen-shot-1-1020x525.jpg 1020w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A screenshot from body-camera video of the Nov. 27 police killing of David Glen Ward shows former Sonoma County Sheriff’s Deputy Charles Blount as he grabs Ward by the head, a few seconds before slamming Ward’s face against the car’s door frame. \u003ccite>(Via Sonoma County Sheriff)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>A Sonoma County \u003ca href=\"http://sonomacounty.ca.gov/CRA/Registrar-of-Voters/Elections/PDFs/Measure-P-IOLERO-November-3-2020/\">measure\u003c/a> seeking to increase power of the county’s independent oversight of its Sheriff’s Office was leading by wide margin Wednesday night. Over two-thirds of votes counted so far are in favor of the measure that drew strong opposition from the sheriff and deputies’ union.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m really hopeful that now that we have this outcome, they’ll shift gears and take the hand that’s been held out to them so we can improve these relationships,” said Jerry Threet, former director of Sonoma County’s Independent Office of Law Enforcement Outreach and supporter of Measure P.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The measure increases powers and budget of the office, which was created in the years following the 2013 killing of 13-year-old \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/andy-lopez/\">Andy Lopez\u003c/a>. Backers of the measure say the office known as IOLERO was underfunded from the start and has relied on the voluntary cooperation of the sheriff to provide access and allow for any substantive oversight.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The measure, which was put on the ballot by a unanimous vote of the Sonoma County Board of Supervisors, requires the sheriff to cooperate with investigations and gives IOLERO authority to obtain evidence, contact witnesses and subpoena records. The office would also be able to publish body camera footage on its website and recommend disciplinary actions for officers under investigation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Measure P also increases funding for the office, requiring that its budget be equal to 1% of the overall sheriff’s budget, and prohibits its directors from being removed unless approved by a four-fifths vote of the Board of Supervisors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The measure comes a year after former Sheriff’s Deputy Charles Blount, who had a history of misusing neck holds, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11789667/in-custody-death-sonoma-county-deputy-lied-in-court-about-past-carotid-hold\">was caught on body camera video\u003c/a> slamming a man’s head into a car door frame following a chase after attempting to put him in a headlock through the driver’s side window.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The man, David Glen Ward, who had a disability, subsequently died from his injuries according to coroner’s findings, which also found methamphetamine in his system.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sonoma County Sheriff Mark Essick moved to fire Blount, but the deputy was allowed to retire before he was officially disciplined and is now presumably collecting a pension. A criminal investigation into Ward’s death took months to complete and the Sonoma County district attorney has yet to make a charging decision in the case.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Measure P was strongly \u003ca href=\"https://www.pressdemocrat.com/article/news/campaign-heats-up-on-sonoma-county-ballot-measure-to-beef-up-law-enforcemen/\">opposed\u003c/a> by the sheriff and the union representing its deputies. Its funding provision is expected to be challenged in court.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Alex Emslie and Kate Wolffe of KQED News contributed reporting to this article.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>The police killings of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor and a multitude of other Black people in America have sparked nationwide — and international — protests this year, with calls for sweeping reforms: from defunding entire police departments to strengthening civilian oversight of them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the Bay Area alone, at least six measures on local ballots seek to expand the authority of police commissions and strengthen independent investigations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The measures go before voters just two months after the California Legislature \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/forum/2010101879558/major-police-reform-bills-fail-in-california-legislature\">failed to pass\u003c/a> several major statewide police accountability bills — including one to remove police officers who commit serious misconduct — after facing strong opposition from law enforcement group.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here’s a rundown of the local measures:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"#S1\">Oakland: Measure S1\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"#D\">San Francisco: Proposition D\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"#E\">San Francisco: Proposition E\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"#II\">Berkeley: Measure II\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"#G\">San Jose: Measure G\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"#P\">Sonoma County: Measure P\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003ch3>\u003ca id=\"S1\">Oakland: Measure S1\u003c/a>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11843542\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11843542\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/RS43436_026_KQED_Oakland_GeorgeFloydProtest_05292020-qut.jpg\" alt=\"Demonstators and OPD\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/RS43436_026_KQED_Oakland_GeorgeFloydProtest_05292020-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/RS43436_026_KQED_Oakland_GeorgeFloydProtest_05292020-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/RS43436_026_KQED_Oakland_GeorgeFloydProtest_05292020-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/RS43436_026_KQED_Oakland_GeorgeFloydProtest_05292020-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/RS43436_026_KQED_Oakland_GeorgeFloydProtest_05292020-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Demonstrators face a police line on May 29, 2020 in Oakland during protests following the police killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/24-Measure-S1-City-of-Oakland-Police-Commussion.pdf\">Measure S1\u003c/a> would strengthen oversight of Oakland’s police force by creating a new Office of the Inspector General (OIG), independent from the Police Department, and increasing the authority of both the Oakland Police Commission and the Community Police Review Agency (CPRA) — both of which conduct investigations into police misconduct.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Under the measure, the commission — which voters approved in 2016 (Measure LL) — would operate independently from the city administration. Both it and the CPRA could hire their own attorneys, be able to more quickly conduct investigations into police misconduct and may more readily release their findings to the public.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The measure would also require Oakland’s police chief to respond to the commission’s requests for information.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If the measure passes, the new independent OIG would be tasked with reviewing cases of police misconduct and submitting reports to the police commission and the Oakland City Council. It would also oversee compliance with a 2003 settlement in a federal civil rights lawsuit — known as the Riders case — when the city and Police Department entered into an agreement to address serious allegations of police misconduct.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.oaklandca.gov/resources/oakland-police-negotiated-settlement-agreement-nsa-reports\">Under the settlement\u003c/a>, which the city has yet to fully comply with, the department was placed under ongoing federal oversight and required to implement a series of reforms, including improved police training and supervision, better systems for identifying inappropriate police behavior and increased public access to the complaint process.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The measure is backed unanimously by the Oakland City Council and the California Democratic Party, with no official opponents listed.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003ca id=\"D\">San Francisco: Proposition D\u003c/a>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11843548\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11843548\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/RS21357_20161005_100742-qut.jpg\" alt=\"seal of the SF sheriff's department\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1440\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/RS21357_20161005_100742-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/RS21357_20161005_100742-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/RS21357_20161005_100742-qut-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/RS21357_20161005_100742-qut-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/RS21357_20161005_100742-qut-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/RS21357_20161005_100742-qut-1832x1374.jpg 1832w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/RS21357_20161005_100742-qut-1376x1032.jpg 1376w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/RS21357_20161005_100742-qut-1044x783.jpg 1044w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/RS21357_20161005_100742-qut-632x474.jpg 632w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/RS21357_20161005_100742-qut-536x402.jpg 536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Prop. D comes in the wake of several high-profile allegations of misconduct in the San Francisco Sheriff’s Department. \u003ccite>(Alex Emslie/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://voterguide.sfelections.org/en/sheriff-oversight\">Proposition D\u003c/a> would create two new oversight bodies for the San Francisco County Sheriff’s Department: the Office of Inspector General (OIG), which would investigate misconduct within the department, and an oversight board. The seven-member board — four of whom would be appointed by the Board of Supervisors and three by the mayor — would make policy recommendations to the sheriff and the Board of Supervisors regarding department operations, complaints against deputies and in-custody deaths. However, the sheriff would retain the authority to determine any disciplinary actions against deputies and other departmental staff.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The measure, placed on the ballot by a unanimous vote of the Board of Supervisors, comes in the wake of several high-profile allegations of misconduct in the Sheriff’s Department. Most notably, sheriff’s deputies were accused in 2016 of \u003ca href=\"https://www.vice.com/en/article/qv5enm/san-francisco-sheriffs-deputies-accused-of-forcing-jailed-inmates-to-participate-in-fight-club\">arranging gladiator-style fights\u003c/a> between inmates in San Francisco County Jail. A subsequent botched internal investigation resulted in those charges being dropped. And last year, the department entered into an agreement allowing the San Francisco Department of Police Accountability to investigate a number existing allegations of misconduct.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Francisco Sheriff Paul Miyamoto has come out \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/crime/article/Election-2020-A-breakdown-of-the-Bay-Area-s-15594960.php\">opposing the investigation portion of the measure\u003c/a>, saying it would create a redundant “wasteful bureaucracy” that overlaps with the independent investigations into his department already in progress.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label=\"related coverage\" tag=\"police-reform\"]In California, the county sheriff is an elected position whose role is largely defined in the state Constitution. Sheriff’s departments operate independently of policies that govern local police departments, and are authorized to carry out their own investigations into misconduct. Because county officials don’t have the same authority over them that mayors and city councils have over appointed police chiefs, oversight of sheriff’s departments has traditionally been limited.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But in recent years, as more cases of potential misconduct within individual sheriff’s departments have come to light, a small but growing number of counties have established oversight agencies to investigate those allegations. Additionally, \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/uncategorized/2019/09/sheriff-power/\">Assembly Bill 1185, \u003c/a>which Gov. Gavin Newsom approved last month, codifies every county’s ability to establish a sheriff oversight board and inspector general’s office, both with subpoena powers.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003ca id=\"E\">San Francisco: Proposition E\u003c/a>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11843551\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11843551\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/RS40522_IMG_2406-qut.jpg\" alt=\"SFPD chief William Scott\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/RS40522_IMG_2406-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/RS40522_IMG_2406-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/RS40522_IMG_2406-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/RS40522_IMG_2406-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/RS40522_IMG_2406-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">San Francisco Police Chief William Scott listens during a town hall meeting at Cesar Chavez Elementary in the wake of a Dec., 2019 police shooting in the Mission District. \u003ccite>(Sheraz Sadiq/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://voterguide.sfelections.org/en/police-staffing\">Proposition E\u003c/a> would amend the city charter to scrap the mandatory minimum staffing number for full-duty sworn police officers in San Francisco, and require the department to submit a report and recommendation for police staffing levels every two years to the Police Commission. The commission would then have to consider the report when approving the department’s budget.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Currently, San Francisco would be in violation of its charter if it fell below the minimum staffing level of 1,971 full-duty officers, a number established several decades ago. Proponents of the new measure say that staffing mandate is arbitrary and antiquated.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The measure would ultimately allow city leaders — including the mayor, supervisors and the Police Commission — to hire fewer full-duty officers. The effort aligns with some of the recent reforms pushed by Mayor London Breed and Police Chief Bill Scott to divert responses to some mental health-related issues and other non-violent complaints away from the Police Department.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The San Francisco Police Officers Association opposes this measure, arguing that the city has not consistently met the minimum staffing requirements, leaving the department perennially understaffed.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003ca id=\"II\">Berkeley: Measure II\u003c/a>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11843553\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1440px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11843553\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/RS13484_460085990-e1418082501731-qut.jpg\" alt=\"Berkeley police line\" width=\"1440\" height=\"960\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/RS13484_460085990-e1418082501731-qut.jpg 1440w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/RS13484_460085990-e1418082501731-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/RS13484_460085990-e1418082501731-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/RS13484_460085990-e1418082501731-qut-160x107.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1440px) 100vw, 1440px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Berkeley police officers form a line on Telegraph Ave during protests in Dec., 2014 following a New York jury’s decision not to indict a police officer in the chokehold death of Eric Garner. \u003ccite>(Stephen Lam/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Berkeley was an early adopter of civilian police oversight. Its current Police Review Commission was established in 1973, long before most other cities had even considered such entities. But some Berkeley residents and city leaders say the commission has become antiquated, and lacks the authority of oversight bodies in cities like San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.cityofberkeley.info/uploadedFiles/Clerk/Elections/Police%20Charter%20Question%20and%20Text.pdf\">Measure II\u003c/a> would replace the existing commission by early 2022 with a nine-member independent body and director called the Police Accountability Board, with increased oversight of the Berkeley Police Department’s policies and practices. The measure would create a new process to investigate and review allegations of police misconduct, giving the board authority to obtain access to police records and officer testimony, investigate complaints filed by members of the public against sworn officers and recommend disciplinary action. The board would also advise on the hiring of future police chiefs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The measure, which was introduced by a coalition of Berkeley police officials, City Council members and current oversight commissioners, would also give the public \u003ca href=\"https://www.kalw.org/post/berkeley-measure-ii-police-accountability-board#stream/0\">more time\u003c/a> to file complaints against police officers and lower the burden of proof in the process investigating those allegations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Measure II is endorsed by local chapters of the NAACP, ACLU and National Institute for Criminal Justice Reform. No one has submitted a formal argument opposing the measure.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003ca id=\"G\">San Jose: Measure G\u003c/a>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11828875\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1280px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11828875\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/IMG_8296.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1280\" height=\"886\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/IMG_8296.jpg 1280w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/IMG_8296-800x554.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/IMG_8296-1020x706.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/IMG_8296-160x111.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1280px) 100vw, 1280px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Police officers in riot gear block off a street in downtown San Jose on May 29, 2020, in advance of a large protest against police brutality, spurred by the death of George Floyd at the hands of Minneapolis police. \u003ccite>(Adhiti Bandlamudi/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Placed on the ballot by the City Council, \u003ca href=\"https://www.sanjoseca.gov/your-government/appointees/city-clerk/elections/measure-g-charter-amendment\">Measure G\u003c/a> would amend the city charter to institute a handful of fairly wide-ranging changes — some not directly related to police accountability — which include changing the size of the Planning Commission and allowing the council to establish different timelines for redistricting if U.S. Census results arrive late.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Concerning police oversight, Measure G would expand the review authority of the Independent Police Auditor (IPA). Currently, the IPA reviews police department investigations of complaints against police officers and makes recommendations regarding police department policies and procedures, but lacks access to key pieces of evidence in those investigations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Under the measure, the IPA could review administrative investigations initiated by the police department against its officers and would gain access to un-redacted records related to police shootings and other serious use-of-force incidents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The measure comes as the San Jose Police Department is being sued for its officers’ use of tear gas and projectiles against mostly peaceful demonstrators during the George Floyd protests in the city in late May and early June.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A scandal also erupted this summer when a \u003ca href=\"https://www.sanjoseinside.com/news/sjpd-officers-mock-muslims-blm-protesters-on-facebook/\">blogger exposed\u003c/a> that current and former San Jose police officers swapped bigoted messages in a Facebook group, prompting the department to place four officers on leave. The Santa Clara County district attorney has since \u003ca href=\"https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2020-10-22/social-media-scandal-santa-clara-police-charges-dropped\">announced plans to dismiss charges\u003c/a> in 14 criminal cases tainted by those officers’ involvement.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003ca id=\"P\">Sonoma County: Measure P\u003c/a>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11818497\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11818497\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/05/Blount-screen-shot-1.jpg\" alt=\"A screen shot from body camera video of the Nov. 27 in-custody of death of David Ward shows former Sonoma County Sheriff's Deputy Charles Blount as he grabs Ward by the head, a few seconds before slamming Ward's face against the car's door frame.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"988\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/05/Blount-screen-shot-1.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/05/Blount-screen-shot-1-160x82.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/05/Blount-screen-shot-1-800x412.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/05/Blount-screen-shot-1-1020x525.jpg 1020w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A screenshot from body-camera video of the Nov. 27 in-custody of death of David Glen Ward shows former Sonoma County Sheriff’s Deputy Charles Blount as he grabs Ward by the head, a few seconds before slamming Ward’s face against the car’s door frame. \u003ccite>(Via Sonoma County Sheriff)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://sonomacounty.ca.gov/CRA/Registrar-of-Voters/Elections/PDFs/Measure-P-IOLERO-November-3-2020/\">Measure P,\u003c/a> put on the ballot in a unanimous vote by the Sonoma County Board of Supervisors, would increase the powers of the Independent Office of Law Enforcement Review and Outreach (IOLERO). That office was created in the years following the controversial 2013 killing of 13-year-old \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/andy-lopez/\">Andy Lopez\u003c/a>. Proponents of the new measure say the office was underfunded and has relied on the voluntary cooperation of the sheriff to provide access to records and allow for any substantive oversight.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The measure would require the sheriff to cooperate with investigations and give the office authority to obtain evidence, contact witnesses and subpoena records, as well as to publish body camera footage on its website and recommend disciplinary actions for officers under investigation. The measure would also guarantee funding for the office, requiring that its budget be equal to 1% of the overall sheriff’s budget, and prohibit its director’s from being removed unless approved by a four-fifths vote of the Board of Supervisors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The measure comes a year after former Sheriff’s Deputy Charles Blount, who had a history of misusing neck holds \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11789667/in-custody-death-sonoma-county-deputy-lied-in-court-about-past-carotid-hold\">was caught on body camera video\u003c/a> slamming a man’s head into a car door frame following a chase, and attempting to put him in a neck hold through the driver’s side window.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The man, David Glen Ward, who had a disability, subsequently died from his injuries according to the coroner’s findings, which also noted finding methamphetamine in his system. The sheriff was required under a recent state law to release body camera video from the incident, and said at the time he was moving to fire Blount. But Blount retired before he was officially disciplined and is now presumably collecting a pension. A criminal investigation into Ward’s death took months to complete and the Sonoma County district attorney has yet to make a charging decision in the case.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The sheriff and the union representing its deputies \u003ca href=\"https://www.pressdemocrat.com/article/news/campaign-heats-up-on-sonoma-county-ballot-measure-to-beef-up-law-enforcemen/\">oppose the measure\u003c/a>, comparing it with efforts to defund police departments while contending that county supervisors violated state labor laws by placing it on the November ballot before conferring with the union.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, supporters of the measure dispute that argument, noting that IOLERO is supported by the county’s general fund, and the measure in no way reduces funding to the sheriff’s office.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>KQED’s Alex Emslie contributed reporting to this article.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>The police killings of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor and a multitude of other Black people in America have sparked nationwide — and international — protests this year, with calls for sweeping reforms: from defunding entire police departments to strengthening civilian oversight of them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the Bay Area alone, at least six measures on local ballots seek to expand the authority of police commissions and strengthen independent investigations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The measures go before voters just two months after the California Legislature \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/forum/2010101879558/major-police-reform-bills-fail-in-california-legislature\">failed to pass\u003c/a> several major statewide police accountability bills — including one to remove police officers who commit serious misconduct — after facing strong opposition from law enforcement group.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here’s a rundown of the local measures:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"#S1\">Oakland: Measure S1\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"#D\">San Francisco: Proposition D\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"#E\">San Francisco: Proposition E\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"#II\">Berkeley: Measure II\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"#G\">San Jose: Measure G\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"#P\">Sonoma County: Measure P\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003ch3>\u003ca id=\"S1\">Oakland: Measure S1\u003c/a>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11843542\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11843542\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/RS43436_026_KQED_Oakland_GeorgeFloydProtest_05292020-qut.jpg\" alt=\"Demonstators and OPD\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/RS43436_026_KQED_Oakland_GeorgeFloydProtest_05292020-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/RS43436_026_KQED_Oakland_GeorgeFloydProtest_05292020-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/RS43436_026_KQED_Oakland_GeorgeFloydProtest_05292020-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/RS43436_026_KQED_Oakland_GeorgeFloydProtest_05292020-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/RS43436_026_KQED_Oakland_GeorgeFloydProtest_05292020-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Demonstrators face a police line on May 29, 2020 in Oakland during protests following the police killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/24-Measure-S1-City-of-Oakland-Police-Commussion.pdf\">Measure S1\u003c/a> would strengthen oversight of Oakland’s police force by creating a new Office of the Inspector General (OIG), independent from the Police Department, and increasing the authority of both the Oakland Police Commission and the Community Police Review Agency (CPRA) — both of which conduct investigations into police misconduct.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Under the measure, the commission — which voters approved in 2016 (Measure LL) — would operate independently from the city administration. Both it and the CPRA could hire their own attorneys, be able to more quickly conduct investigations into police misconduct and may more readily release their findings to the public.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The measure would also require Oakland’s police chief to respond to the commission’s requests for information.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If the measure passes, the new independent OIG would be tasked with reviewing cases of police misconduct and submitting reports to the police commission and the Oakland City Council. It would also oversee compliance with a 2003 settlement in a federal civil rights lawsuit — known as the Riders case — when the city and Police Department entered into an agreement to address serious allegations of police misconduct.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.oaklandca.gov/resources/oakland-police-negotiated-settlement-agreement-nsa-reports\">Under the settlement\u003c/a>, which the city has yet to fully comply with, the department was placed under ongoing federal oversight and required to implement a series of reforms, including improved police training and supervision, better systems for identifying inappropriate police behavior and increased public access to the complaint process.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The measure is backed unanimously by the Oakland City Council and the California Democratic Party, with no official opponents listed.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003ca id=\"D\">San Francisco: Proposition D\u003c/a>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11843548\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11843548\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/RS21357_20161005_100742-qut.jpg\" alt=\"seal of the SF sheriff's department\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1440\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/RS21357_20161005_100742-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/RS21357_20161005_100742-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/RS21357_20161005_100742-qut-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/RS21357_20161005_100742-qut-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/RS21357_20161005_100742-qut-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/RS21357_20161005_100742-qut-1832x1374.jpg 1832w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/RS21357_20161005_100742-qut-1376x1032.jpg 1376w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/RS21357_20161005_100742-qut-1044x783.jpg 1044w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/RS21357_20161005_100742-qut-632x474.jpg 632w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/RS21357_20161005_100742-qut-536x402.jpg 536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Prop. D comes in the wake of several high-profile allegations of misconduct in the San Francisco Sheriff’s Department. \u003ccite>(Alex Emslie/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://voterguide.sfelections.org/en/sheriff-oversight\">Proposition D\u003c/a> would create two new oversight bodies for the San Francisco County Sheriff’s Department: the Office of Inspector General (OIG), which would investigate misconduct within the department, and an oversight board. The seven-member board — four of whom would be appointed by the Board of Supervisors and three by the mayor — would make policy recommendations to the sheriff and the Board of Supervisors regarding department operations, complaints against deputies and in-custody deaths. However, the sheriff would retain the authority to determine any disciplinary actions against deputies and other departmental staff.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The measure, placed on the ballot by a unanimous vote of the Board of Supervisors, comes in the wake of several high-profile allegations of misconduct in the Sheriff’s Department. Most notably, sheriff’s deputies were accused in 2016 of \u003ca href=\"https://www.vice.com/en/article/qv5enm/san-francisco-sheriffs-deputies-accused-of-forcing-jailed-inmates-to-participate-in-fight-club\">arranging gladiator-style fights\u003c/a> between inmates in San Francisco County Jail. A subsequent botched internal investigation resulted in those charges being dropped. And last year, the department entered into an agreement allowing the San Francisco Department of Police Accountability to investigate a number existing allegations of misconduct.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Francisco Sheriff Paul Miyamoto has come out \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/crime/article/Election-2020-A-breakdown-of-the-Bay-Area-s-15594960.php\">opposing the investigation portion of the measure\u003c/a>, saying it would create a redundant “wasteful bureaucracy” that overlaps with the independent investigations into his department already in progress.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>In California, the county sheriff is an elected position whose role is largely defined in the state Constitution. Sheriff’s departments operate independently of policies that govern local police departments, and are authorized to carry out their own investigations into misconduct. Because county officials don’t have the same authority over them that mayors and city councils have over appointed police chiefs, oversight of sheriff’s departments has traditionally been limited.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But in recent years, as more cases of potential misconduct within individual sheriff’s departments have come to light, a small but growing number of counties have established oversight agencies to investigate those allegations. Additionally, \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/uncategorized/2019/09/sheriff-power/\">Assembly Bill 1185, \u003c/a>which Gov. Gavin Newsom approved last month, codifies every county’s ability to establish a sheriff oversight board and inspector general’s office, both with subpoena powers.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003ca id=\"E\">San Francisco: Proposition E\u003c/a>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11843551\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11843551\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/RS40522_IMG_2406-qut.jpg\" alt=\"SFPD chief William Scott\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/RS40522_IMG_2406-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/RS40522_IMG_2406-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/RS40522_IMG_2406-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/RS40522_IMG_2406-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/RS40522_IMG_2406-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">San Francisco Police Chief William Scott listens during a town hall meeting at Cesar Chavez Elementary in the wake of a Dec., 2019 police shooting in the Mission District. \u003ccite>(Sheraz Sadiq/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://voterguide.sfelections.org/en/police-staffing\">Proposition E\u003c/a> would amend the city charter to scrap the mandatory minimum staffing number for full-duty sworn police officers in San Francisco, and require the department to submit a report and recommendation for police staffing levels every two years to the Police Commission. The commission would then have to consider the report when approving the department’s budget.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Currently, San Francisco would be in violation of its charter if it fell below the minimum staffing level of 1,971 full-duty officers, a number established several decades ago. Proponents of the new measure say that staffing mandate is arbitrary and antiquated.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The measure would ultimately allow city leaders — including the mayor, supervisors and the Police Commission — to hire fewer full-duty officers. The effort aligns with some of the recent reforms pushed by Mayor London Breed and Police Chief Bill Scott to divert responses to some mental health-related issues and other non-violent complaints away from the Police Department.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The San Francisco Police Officers Association opposes this measure, arguing that the city has not consistently met the minimum staffing requirements, leaving the department perennially understaffed.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003ca id=\"II\">Berkeley: Measure II\u003c/a>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11843553\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1440px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11843553\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/RS13484_460085990-e1418082501731-qut.jpg\" alt=\"Berkeley police line\" width=\"1440\" height=\"960\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/RS13484_460085990-e1418082501731-qut.jpg 1440w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/RS13484_460085990-e1418082501731-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/RS13484_460085990-e1418082501731-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/RS13484_460085990-e1418082501731-qut-160x107.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1440px) 100vw, 1440px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Berkeley police officers form a line on Telegraph Ave during protests in Dec., 2014 following a New York jury’s decision not to indict a police officer in the chokehold death of Eric Garner. \u003ccite>(Stephen Lam/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Berkeley was an early adopter of civilian police oversight. Its current Police Review Commission was established in 1973, long before most other cities had even considered such entities. But some Berkeley residents and city leaders say the commission has become antiquated, and lacks the authority of oversight bodies in cities like San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.cityofberkeley.info/uploadedFiles/Clerk/Elections/Police%20Charter%20Question%20and%20Text.pdf\">Measure II\u003c/a> would replace the existing commission by early 2022 with a nine-member independent body and director called the Police Accountability Board, with increased oversight of the Berkeley Police Department’s policies and practices. The measure would create a new process to investigate and review allegations of police misconduct, giving the board authority to obtain access to police records and officer testimony, investigate complaints filed by members of the public against sworn officers and recommend disciplinary action. The board would also advise on the hiring of future police chiefs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The measure, which was introduced by a coalition of Berkeley police officials, City Council members and current oversight commissioners, would also give the public \u003ca href=\"https://www.kalw.org/post/berkeley-measure-ii-police-accountability-board#stream/0\">more time\u003c/a> to file complaints against police officers and lower the burden of proof in the process investigating those allegations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Measure II is endorsed by local chapters of the NAACP, ACLU and National Institute for Criminal Justice Reform. No one has submitted a formal argument opposing the measure.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003ca id=\"G\">San Jose: Measure G\u003c/a>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11828875\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1280px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11828875\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/IMG_8296.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1280\" height=\"886\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/IMG_8296.jpg 1280w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/IMG_8296-800x554.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/IMG_8296-1020x706.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/IMG_8296-160x111.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1280px) 100vw, 1280px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Police officers in riot gear block off a street in downtown San Jose on May 29, 2020, in advance of a large protest against police brutality, spurred by the death of George Floyd at the hands of Minneapolis police. \u003ccite>(Adhiti Bandlamudi/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Placed on the ballot by the City Council, \u003ca href=\"https://www.sanjoseca.gov/your-government/appointees/city-clerk/elections/measure-g-charter-amendment\">Measure G\u003c/a> would amend the city charter to institute a handful of fairly wide-ranging changes — some not directly related to police accountability — which include changing the size of the Planning Commission and allowing the council to establish different timelines for redistricting if U.S. Census results arrive late.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Concerning police oversight, Measure G would expand the review authority of the Independent Police Auditor (IPA). Currently, the IPA reviews police department investigations of complaints against police officers and makes recommendations regarding police department policies and procedures, but lacks access to key pieces of evidence in those investigations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Under the measure, the IPA could review administrative investigations initiated by the police department against its officers and would gain access to un-redacted records related to police shootings and other serious use-of-force incidents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The measure comes as the San Jose Police Department is being sued for its officers’ use of tear gas and projectiles against mostly peaceful demonstrators during the George Floyd protests in the city in late May and early June.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A scandal also erupted this summer when a \u003ca href=\"https://www.sanjoseinside.com/news/sjpd-officers-mock-muslims-blm-protesters-on-facebook/\">blogger exposed\u003c/a> that current and former San Jose police officers swapped bigoted messages in a Facebook group, prompting the department to place four officers on leave. The Santa Clara County district attorney has since \u003ca href=\"https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2020-10-22/social-media-scandal-santa-clara-police-charges-dropped\">announced plans to dismiss charges\u003c/a> in 14 criminal cases tainted by those officers’ involvement.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003ca id=\"P\">Sonoma County: Measure P\u003c/a>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11818497\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11818497\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/05/Blount-screen-shot-1.jpg\" alt=\"A screen shot from body camera video of the Nov. 27 in-custody of death of David Ward shows former Sonoma County Sheriff's Deputy Charles Blount as he grabs Ward by the head, a few seconds before slamming Ward's face against the car's door frame.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"988\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/05/Blount-screen-shot-1.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/05/Blount-screen-shot-1-160x82.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/05/Blount-screen-shot-1-800x412.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/05/Blount-screen-shot-1-1020x525.jpg 1020w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A screenshot from body-camera video of the Nov. 27 in-custody of death of David Glen Ward shows former Sonoma County Sheriff’s Deputy Charles Blount as he grabs Ward by the head, a few seconds before slamming Ward’s face against the car’s door frame. \u003ccite>(Via Sonoma County Sheriff)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://sonomacounty.ca.gov/CRA/Registrar-of-Voters/Elections/PDFs/Measure-P-IOLERO-November-3-2020/\">Measure P,\u003c/a> put on the ballot in a unanimous vote by the Sonoma County Board of Supervisors, would increase the powers of the Independent Office of Law Enforcement Review and Outreach (IOLERO). That office was created in the years following the controversial 2013 killing of 13-year-old \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/andy-lopez/\">Andy Lopez\u003c/a>. Proponents of the new measure say the office was underfunded and has relied on the voluntary cooperation of the sheriff to provide access to records and allow for any substantive oversight.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The measure would require the sheriff to cooperate with investigations and give the office authority to obtain evidence, contact witnesses and subpoena records, as well as to publish body camera footage on its website and recommend disciplinary actions for officers under investigation. The measure would also guarantee funding for the office, requiring that its budget be equal to 1% of the overall sheriff’s budget, and prohibit its director’s from being removed unless approved by a four-fifths vote of the Board of Supervisors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The measure comes a year after former Sheriff’s Deputy Charles Blount, who had a history of misusing neck holds \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11789667/in-custody-death-sonoma-county-deputy-lied-in-court-about-past-carotid-hold\">was caught on body camera video\u003c/a> slamming a man’s head into a car door frame following a chase, and attempting to put him in a neck hold through the driver’s side window.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The man, David Glen Ward, who had a disability, subsequently died from his injuries according to the coroner’s findings, which also noted finding methamphetamine in his system. The sheriff was required under a recent state law to release body camera video from the incident, and said at the time he was moving to fire Blount. But Blount retired before he was officially disciplined and is now presumably collecting a pension. A criminal investigation into Ward’s death took months to complete and the Sonoma County district attorney has yet to make a charging decision in the case.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The sheriff and the union representing its deputies \u003ca href=\"https://www.pressdemocrat.com/article/news/campaign-heats-up-on-sonoma-county-ballot-measure-to-beef-up-law-enforcemen/\">oppose the measure\u003c/a>, comparing it with efforts to defund police departments while contending that county supervisors violated state labor laws by placing it on the November ballot before conferring with the union.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, supporters of the measure dispute that argument, noting that IOLERO is supported by the county’s general fund, and the measure in no way reduces funding to the sheriff’s office.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>KQED’s Alex Emslie contributed reporting to this article.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>Oakland was among the half dozen major U.S. cities that President Trump said Monday would soon see “more federal law enforcement,” while lauding the recent deployment of federal agents in Portland, Oregon.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Hill \u003ca href=\"https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/508138-trump-signals-he-will-send-federal-agents-to-major-cities\">posted the comments\u003c/a> Trump made to reporters from the Oval Office.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re not going to let New York and Chicago and Philadelphia and Detroit and Baltimore and all of these — Oakland is a mess. We’re not going to let this happen in our country,” Trump said, before noting that all of those cities are “run by liberal Democrats.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote align=\"right\" size=\"medium\" citation=\"Oakland Mayor Libby Schaaf\"]‘We are not experiencing any civil unrest right now. But I can think of nothing more likely to incite it than the presence of Trump-ordered military troops into Oakland.’[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Trump went on to say that federal officers have done a “fantastic job” in Portland. “No problem,” he said. “They grab ’em — a lot of people in jail. Their leaders — these are anarchists, these are not protesters.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Unsurprisingly, the response from Oakland leaders has been fast and furious.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“People have a constitutional right to protest,” East Bay Democratic Rep. Barbara Lee responded on Twitter. “Stay away from Oakland.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a quickly issued statement, Oakland Mayor Libby Schaaf said, “Oakland needs COVID relief — not troops — from our President. He should stop slandering diverse, progressive cities like Oakland in his racist dog whistles and divisive campaign tactics.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Trump’s comments come after Oregon Public Broadcasting last week reported unidentified \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2020/07/17/892277592/federal-officers-use-unmarked-vehicles-to-grab-protesters-in-portland\">federal agents in camouflage and tactical gear\u003c/a> firing tear gas and non-lethal rounds at demonstrators in Portland, and pulling some protesters into unmarked vans, in an effort to quell the city’s more than 50 consecutive nights of protests against racism and police brutality.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/RepBarbaraLee/status/1285317749170896899?s=20\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Following outcry from Portland city officials and the governor, Oregon’s attorney general \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2020/07/18/892617402/oregon-to-sue-federal-agencies-over-protest-enforcement\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">filed a lawsuit\u003c/a> Friday accusing officers from U.S. Customs and Border Protection and other federal agencies of violating the constitutional right of protesters, \u003ca href=\"https://www.opb.org/news/article/federal-law-enforcement-unmarked-vehicles-portland-protesters/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">OPB\u003c/a> reported.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Ordinarily, a person exercising his right to walk through the streets of Portland who is confronted by anonymous men in military-type fatigues and ordered into an unmarked van can reasonably assume that he is being kidnapped and is the victim of a crime,” the \u003ca href=\"http://opb-imgserve-production.s3-website-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/original/ag_rosenblum_xxxx_updated_complaint_1595086491349.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">lawsuit\u003c/a> states.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The U.S. Justice and Homeland Security departments did not respond to requests for comment. But a recent \u003ca href=\"https://www.dhs.gov/news/2020/07/19/backgrounder-day-50-continued-violence-portland\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">DHS press release\u003c/a> accused “violent anarchists” of laying siege to a federal courthouse over the weekend and shooting fireworks at the building, “attempting to injure or kill federal officers.” The perpetrators also “attempted to blind federal officers by targeting their eyes with laser weapons,” according to DHS statement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Unlike in Portland, Bay Area demonstrations against police violence have subsided in recent weeks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are not experiencing any civil unrest right now,” Schaaf said in her statement. “But I can think of nothing more likely to incite it than the presence of Trump-ordered military troops into Oakland.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Oakland Police Department “has not, nor would we, request federal assistance to address crowd management within our city,” a department spokeswoman said in an emailed response.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label=\"more protest coverage\" tag=\"george-floyd\"]But the exact role of the\u003ca href=\"https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/508138-trump-signals-he-will-send-federal-agents-to-major-cities\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> 175 federal agents\u003c/a> that Trump threatened to deploy is unclear. In his remarks Monday, Trump cited spikes in violent crime in New York and Chicago. Oakland, too, has seen a rise in homicides and shootings compared to this time last year, according to the Police Department.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Federal assistance for violent crime investigations is nothing new. The FBI, for example, has long assisted OPD with homicide investigations. But that’s a different role than crowd management, and arresting people for vandalism is unlikely to affect murder rates.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California Democratic Sen. Kamala Harris was among seven U.S. lawmakers who introduced legislation Monday to curtail some of the federal enforcement tactics seen in Portland.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The legislation, introduced as an amendment to the National Defense Authorization Act, would require federal officers to be clearly identified and limit their crowd control activities to federal property. It would also require public notice within 24 hours when agents are deployed, including the reason for their deployment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Donald Trump is ordering unidentified law enforcement to violate Americans’ civil rights,” Harris said in a statement. “These actions are those of an authoritarian regime and do not represent who we are as a nation. I call on my colleagues in the Senate to pass this measure immediately — we are better than this.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cp>Among the tens of thousands of Black Lives Matter protesters who continue to pour into the streets of cities across the country — and the world — decrying America's long history of violent, racially unjust policing, one rallying cry has gained particular traction: 'Defund the police.'\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But what that actually means varies widely depending on who you ask, from dismantling or flat-out abolishing existing police forces to slashing their hefty budgets and diverting those funds to social service programs, which proponents say would much better serve and protect many communities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Broadly speaking, 'defunding the police' entails minimizing the outsize role law enforcement has come to assume in most U.S. cities as the default responder for all matters of complaints, and delegating many of those responsibilities to unarmed social workers and other behavioral health specialists.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When we talk about defunding the police, what we’re saying is, ‘Invest in the resources that our communities need,'” Black Lives Matter co-founder \u003ca href=\"https://youtu.be/5NrRIIeNFfo\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Alicia Garza said recently on NBC’s “Meet the Press.\"\u003c/a> So much police response, she added, “is directed toward quality-of-life issues, homelessness, drug addiction, domestic violence and conflict.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As local leaders scramble to institute police reforms — from \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11823629/california-legislative-leaders-back-state-sleeper-hold-ban\">banning chokeholds\u003c/a> to \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11824453/state-attorney-general-calls-for-a-way-to-ban-problem-cops-other-police-reforms\">heightening accountability\u003c/a> — many activists argue those tweaks won’t ultimately fix a system they consider fundamentally unjust. Real change, they contend, can only come about through a sweeping process of tearing down police departments and rethinking public safety.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>A Pricey Business\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Since the 1970s, when tough-on-crime policies took hold, most U.S. cities have \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/06/12/upshot/cities-grew-safer-police-budgets-kept-growing.html\">funneled an increasingly large share of their budgets\u003c/a> into public safety, often at the expense of social service and anti-poverty programs. And police officers have been tasked with an ever-wider range of responsibilities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In most cities, spending on local police typically dwarfs investment in just about any other sector. In Oakland, for instance, \u003ca href=\"https://cao-94612.s3.amazonaws.com/documents/FY-2019-21-Adopted-Budget-Policy-Book-FINAL-WEB-VERSION.pdf\">about 20% of the city's entire budget\u003c/a> (total expenditures, not including education) — more than $318 million — goes to policing. That's nearly double the amount of any other city department.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Until very recently, any proposal to divest from police departments would have been dismissed by most city leaders as politically untenable. But as public pressure mounts in response to the killing of George Floyd at the hands of Minneapolis police — among many other glaring recent incidents of police brutality — the idea has gained a strong foothold among a small but growing contingent of locally elected leaders.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Case in point: In Minneapolis, the epicenter of the current wave of protests, a veto-proof majority of \u003ca href=\"https://www.mprnews.org/story/2020/06/07/vetoproof-majority-minneapolis-council-members-gives-support-dismantling-police-department\">nine City Council members\u003c/a> recently said they would move to dismantle the city's long-troubled police force, even as the mayor declined to support the effort.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti \u003ca href=\"https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2020-06-04/lapd-budget-cuts-garcetti-protests-explainer\">grabbed headlines\u003c/a> this month when he unveiled a proposal to take $150 million from the city's massive police budget of over $1 billion and reinvest it in jobs programs, health initiatives and other services in communities of color. Although some activists say that doesn't go anywhere far enough, it marks a significant turnaround from April, when the mayor proposed a 7% funding \u003cem>increase\u003c/em> for the police. And on Monday – in an meeting once considered unthinkable – the Los Angeles City Council \u003ca href=\"https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2020-06-15/black-lives-matter-lapd-spending-peoples-budget-los-angeles-city-council\">heard from a coalition of activists\u003c/a> who presented a plan to end the city’s reliance on police officers and adopt new community safety strategies.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Lessons From a City That Disbanded the Police\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Disbanding a police department and starting from scratch is not without precedent in the U.S. The city of Camden, New Jersey did it in 2013.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Following years of unabated violent crime, the city council \u003ca href=\"https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2020/06/12/camden-policing-reforms-313750\">literally shut down the police department\u003c/a> — one that had long been considered inept and corrupt — and created an entirely new non-unionized department under county control. All officers were laid off and had to reapply for their jobs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since then, the city's homicide rate has plummeted, as have once-plentiful excessive force complaints, while community-police relations seem to have significantly improved. The overhaul wasn’t a panacea by any stretch — problems with police accountability and racial disparities still exist in the city — but the experiment is \u003ca href=\"https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2020/06/12/camden-policing-reforms-313750\">generally considered a success\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In California, however, many liberal leaders wary of appearing soft on crime or of incurring the wrath of powerful police unions are walking a fine line on an inherently thorny issue, acknowledging the need for reforms while clearly remaining reluctant to support sweeping overhauls.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label=\"related coverage\" tag=\"police-violence\"]At a recent forum in Oakland on policing and racism, Gov. Gavin Newsom \u003ca href=\"https://www.mercurynews.com/2020/06/09/gov-newsom-holds-meeting-on-racism-and-system-injustices-in-oakland-visits-miss-ollies/\">tiptoed around the issue\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If you’re calling for eliminating police, no,” he said. “If you’re talking about reimagining and taking the opportunity to look at the responsibility and role that we place on law enforcement to be social workers, mental health workers, get involved in disputes where a badge and a gun are unnecessary, then I think absolutely this is an opportunity to look at all of the above.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the Bay Area, city leaders are beginning to propose policing reforms of various size and scope. None, though, has yet acceded to protesters' demands to completely dismantle or defund entire departments.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here is the latest on what top local officials have so far proposed in the region's three largest cities, each of which has had its own troubling history of policing in Black and brown communities.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>San Francisco\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>SFPD budget (2019-20): \u003ca href=\"https://sfmayor.org/sites/default/files/CSF_Budget_Book_June_2019_Final_Web_REV2.pdf\">$695.7 million\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\nSworn officers: 2,260\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Update: On July 31, San Francisco Mayor London Breed \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11831527/sf-mayor-breeds-new-budget-would-redirect-120-million-from-police-to-citys-black-community\">unveiled a proposed budget\u003c/a> that includes pulling $120 million dollars from law enforcement agencies and putting it into programs that support the city’s largely underserved Black community. The previous month, Breed also directed the police department to no longer\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11824152/san-francisco-police-wont-respond-to-non-criminal-calls\"> respond to noncriminal complaints\u003c/a>, revise its accountability and anti-bias practices and stop using military-grade equipment.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Despite pressure from activists on the street, Breed made clear she has no intention of dismantling the city's police department.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"San Francisco Mayor London Breed\"]'Completely dismantle? It is not something at this time that I think will serve the public.'[/pullquote]“I think it's understandable that people are feeling that way, but the fact is you have people who kill people, you have people who rob people and commit really horrible acts. And in those particular cases, there is a very strong need for law enforcement,” \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11823865/london-breed-on-racism-i-have-lived-this-my-whole-life\">Breed recently told KQED's Scott Shafer\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I think it's important that our policies are adjusted and that we work to make our department better. And that definitely takes time. But to completely dismantle? It is not something at this time that I think will serve the public.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last week, however, Breed — who as mayor has consistently supported increasing SFPD's budget — proposed a set of major reforms that could transform San Francisco's on-the-ground policing operations. Most notably, SFPD \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11824152/san-francisco-police-wont-respond-to-non-criminal-calls\">will no longer respond to noncriminal complaints\u003c/a>, such as neighbor disputes, behavioral health crises and school discipline interventions. For calls that don't involve a threat to public safety, officers would be replaced by trained, unarmed social workers and behavioral health professionals, who Breed said are better equipped to de-escalate conflicts and limit unnecessary confrontations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_11824152 hero='https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/RS5487_alt_297-1020x765.jpg']“We know that a lack of equity in our society overall leads to a lot of the problems that police are being asked to solve,” Breed said in a statement. “We are going to keep pushing for additional reforms and continue to find ways to reinvest in communities that have historically been underserved and harmed by systemic racism.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Breed additionally proposed strengthening police accountability and anti-bias policies, and banning the department's use of military-grade weapons. She also joined Supervisor Shamann Walton in calling to divert an unspecified amount of funding from SFPD's budget to support programs in the city's African American community as a reparation for city policies that led to “decades of disinvestment.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While few details about that plan have been given, Walton \u003ca href=\"https://missionlocal.org/2020/06/san-francisco-police-chief-bill-scott-open-to-defunding-police-department/#:~:text=The%20chief%2C%20who%20oversees%20a,to%20be%20done%20%E2%80%9Cthoughtfully.%E2%80%9D\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">told Mission Local\u003c/a> he wanted to see “at least $25 million” redirected from the police department “if we are really trying to change some of the systemic issues oppressing Black people here in San Francisco.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Breed's reform proposals don’t include a budget or specifics, but are rather intended as a set of guidelines for the city's Police Commission and other city agencies to map out over the coming year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Francisco Police Chief Bill Scott recently said he was \"open\" to defunding a portion of his own department, as long as it's done \"thoughtfully.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re at a time in policing in this country where the whole world is speaking to us and we need to hear what’s being said,” \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/crime/article/Defund-San-Francisco-police-Chief-Bill-Scott-15328129.php\">Chief Scott said\u003c/a> during a panel hosted by the Alice B. Toklas LGBT Democratic Club on June 8. “And what’s being said is, ‘We have to change the way we do policing in this country.’ And I think for me, I’m open to that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Oakland\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>OPD budget (2019-20): \u003ca href=\"https://cao-94612.s3.amazonaws.com/documents/FY-2019-21-Adopted-Budget-Policy-Book-FINAL-WEB-VERSION.pdf\">$318.7 million\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\nSworn officers: 792\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>UPDATE: On June 23, the Oakland City Council passed a budget that included \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/Oakland-City-Council-approves-budget-with-minimal-15362949.php\">more than $14 million\u003c/a> in cuts to its police department — mostly by shifting some non-sworn positions into other departments, freezing vacant jobs for sworn officers and delaying a police academy. City leaders pledged to reallocate those savings to fund alternative safety measures, including the creation of a non-police unit to respond to some 911 mental health crisis calls. The city also plans to convene a committee tasked with shifting public safety resources from enforcement to prevention services, with the \u003ca href=\"https://www.oaklandca.gov/news/2020/oaklands-mid-cycle-budget-cuts-14-3-million-from-police-budget-invests-additional-50-million-to-address-racial-disparities\">eventual stated goal\u003c/a> of reducing OPD's budget by 50%. Although a nod to activists' defunding demands, the new budget fell far short of the more substantial cuts that many are demanding.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Top officials in Oakland have so far mostly supported leaving the Oakland Police Department’s hefty budget largely intact.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Oakland Mayor Libby Schaaf\"]'I do not believe we need to defund in order to invest in ... community priorities.'[/pullquote]During Mayor Libby Schaaf's \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/MayorLibbySchaaf/videos/596597447632290/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">virtual town hall\u003c/a> on \"structural racism and police reform\" last week, just a day after \u003ca href=\"https://www.berkeleyside.com/2020/06/11/de-fund-the-police-protesters-march-to-oakland-mayors-house\">thousands of protesters showed up outside her house\u003c/a> demanding she defund the police department, she acknowledged the need for major changes in the city's policing model.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There's a growing schism around what safety means,” Schaaf said. “Many people feel police are here to protect and serve,” she said. ”But for a growing number of people, particularly people of color, police do not invoke a sense of safety. They evoke a sense of oppression, of racism, of violence and abuse.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/Rickytherodas/status/1270920155753672705?s=20\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But similar to Breed, Schaaf emphasized that defunding the department was not a prudent path to take.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Schaaf said Oakland needs a well-funded, capable police force to keep the streets safe. The city's police officers responded to over 100,000 calls last year, she noted, and have been instrumental in saving lives, preventing crime and bringing justice to victims.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We have a moment where we can continue to see this divide, or choose a third story, where government intervention and armed response is no longer necessary,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Schaaf also touted her current budget proposal — one submitted before Floyd's death — as a step in the right direction. It would cut about $5 million from the police department, reflecting citywide reductions due to the coronavirus economic fallout, but add roughly $22 million to programs supporting affordable housing, homelessness services and job training, she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I do not believe we need to defund in order to invest in these community priorities,\" Schaaf said. \"That is what this budget does.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In an \u003ca href=\"https://abc7news.com/defund-the-police-what-does-mean-oakland-department-mayor/6241314/\">interview last week with ABC7\u003c/a>, she added, \"We also must invest, not divest in training and holding accountable our officers, to make sure they are policing without any bias, without any unnecessary force, that they are conducting themselves in the ways that are consistent with our progressive values in Oakland, that requires investment.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While offering little in the way of specifics, Schaaf suggested the need to invest in more \"non-law enforcement methods of safety,\" akin to Breed's proposal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"There is definitely room to create more responses that don't involve a gun or a badge,\" she said, noting a \u003ca href=\"https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/2019/7/1/20677523/mental-health-police-cahoots-oregon-oakland-sweden\">program in Eugene, Oregon\u003c/a> that dispatches mobile crisis response teams, not law enforcement, to handle about 20% of all 911 calls.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, Oakland City Councilwoman Nikki Fortunato Bas is taking a tack more in-line with protesters' demands, proposing Oakland divert some of the $300 million it spends on its police department to other social services and crisis responders.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To start, Bas said $25 million of the police budget should fund trained mediators and social service programs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In places like Oakland, where we've been under a negotiated settlement agreement to get to constitutional policing, and we have not achieved that in 17 years, I think the time for reform is over,” she said. “We have to rethink how we get to safety.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_11823933 hero='https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/RS43611_020_KQED_HalfMoonBay_OxMountainLandfill_05292020-qut-1020x679.jpg']And last week, the Oakland Unified School District \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11823933/plans-to-scrap-school-police-backed-by-oakland-education-leaders\">got one step closer\u003c/a> to dismantling its internal police force after OUSD Superintendent Kyla Johnson-Trammell announced her support for a proposal put forward by two school board members.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I am recommending that we move forward to create a district-wide safety plan to ensure safe, healthy and positive school environments for students and adults without a school district police department,\" Johnson-Trammell said during a virtual school board meeting. “Together, we can reimagine how to keep our schools safe, healthy and welcoming.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Activists led by the group Black Organizing Project have been pushing to dissolve the OUSD police department since 2011, when a school district police sergeant \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfgate.com/crime/article/1-million-deal-in-shooting-by-Oakland-schools-cop-4872706.php\">shot and killed Raheim Brown\u003c/a>, a 20-year-old Black man, in the passenger seat of a car parked near Skyline High School.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Supporters of the proposal argue the cash-strapped district should redirect its police budget to hire more school social workers, psychologists and restorative justice practitioners.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This is an opportunity “to redefine community safety in our schools, to reinvest in our schools, to reinvest in our students and to be a model for this entire country of what is possible,” BOP director Jackie Byers said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>San Jose\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>SJPD budget (2019-20): \u003ca href=\"https://www.sanjoseca.gov/home/showdocument?id=58414\">$464.5 million\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\nSworn officers: 959\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Protesters also recently \u003ca href=\"https://www.mercurynews.com/2020/06/12/police-violence-protesters-gather-outside-san-jose-mayors-house/\">paid a visit\u003c/a> to San Jose Mayor Sam Liccardo's house, similarly calling for him to defund the city's police department. Liccardo has flatly dismissed that demand.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"San Jose Mayor Sam Liccardo\"]'Defunding urban police departments... is the wrong idea at the worst possible time.'[/pullquote]Rather than diverting money to social or health services, Liccardo's proposed 2020-21 budget — of $4.1 billion — would keep SJPD fully funded with a stronger focus on policing reforms, including reallocating $150,000 in police overtime wages for an independent police auditor to review “use of force” policies, and creating a separate city office to address racial inequities in the nation's 10th largest city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/anda_chu/status/1271624933395685376?s=20\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We have much work to do to confront our long and terrible history of police brutality against black and brown Americans,” he said in a June 8 statement. \"Defunding urban police departments won’t help us do it. It is the wrong idea at the worst possible time.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Liccardo said he wants to build on the success of reform measures the city has recently instituted, such as mandatory violence de-escalation and implicit racial bias training, and enhanced data collection to track and publish every pat-down, arrest or use of force incident by the race. Those efforts, he said, all require funding.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In his \u003ca href=\"https://www.sanjoseca.gov/Home/ShowDocument?id=59606\">annual budget message\u003c/a>, released last week, Liccardo said he agrees with protesters that now is the time to discuss how to “reduce police involvement in social problems for which they may be poorly equipped or trained.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But “defunding the police will undermine our efforts to keep San Jose’s community safe — particularly for those members of our community who have suffered the most from systemic racism,” he added. “Our residents have told us, again and again, they want more police — not fewer.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Activists say Liccardo's incremental approach won't result in meaningful change.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’d ask that you begin to listen and hear the voices of Black and brown communities and communities of color here in San Jose, respectfully, sir,” resident Matt Cohen told Liccardo during an emotional virtual public hearing Monday, ahead of the City Council's budget vote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You have been very out of touch in the last few weeks, and I think your insistence that you will not defund the police is clearly communicating that you are not listening.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This post includes reporting from KQED's Sara Hossaini and Vanessa Rancaño.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Among the tens of thousands of Black Lives Matter protesters who continue to pour into the streets of cities across the country — and the world — decrying America's long history of violent, racially unjust policing, one rallying cry has gained particular traction: 'Defund the police.'\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But what that actually means varies widely depending on who you ask, from dismantling or flat-out abolishing existing police forces to slashing their hefty budgets and diverting those funds to social service programs, which proponents say would much better serve and protect many communities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Broadly speaking, 'defunding the police' entails minimizing the outsize role law enforcement has come to assume in most U.S. cities as the default responder for all matters of complaints, and delegating many of those responsibilities to unarmed social workers and other behavioral health specialists.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When we talk about defunding the police, what we’re saying is, ‘Invest in the resources that our communities need,'” Black Lives Matter co-founder \u003ca href=\"https://youtu.be/5NrRIIeNFfo\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Alicia Garza said recently on NBC’s “Meet the Press.\"\u003c/a> So much police response, she added, “is directed toward quality-of-life issues, homelessness, drug addiction, domestic violence and conflict.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As local leaders scramble to institute police reforms — from \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11823629/california-legislative-leaders-back-state-sleeper-hold-ban\">banning chokeholds\u003c/a> to \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11824453/state-attorney-general-calls-for-a-way-to-ban-problem-cops-other-police-reforms\">heightening accountability\u003c/a> — many activists argue those tweaks won’t ultimately fix a system they consider fundamentally unjust. Real change, they contend, can only come about through a sweeping process of tearing down police departments and rethinking public safety.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>A Pricey Business\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Since the 1970s, when tough-on-crime policies took hold, most U.S. cities have \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/06/12/upshot/cities-grew-safer-police-budgets-kept-growing.html\">funneled an increasingly large share of their budgets\u003c/a> into public safety, often at the expense of social service and anti-poverty programs. And police officers have been tasked with an ever-wider range of responsibilities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In most cities, spending on local police typically dwarfs investment in just about any other sector. In Oakland, for instance, \u003ca href=\"https://cao-94612.s3.amazonaws.com/documents/FY-2019-21-Adopted-Budget-Policy-Book-FINAL-WEB-VERSION.pdf\">about 20% of the city's entire budget\u003c/a> (total expenditures, not including education) — more than $318 million — goes to policing. That's nearly double the amount of any other city department.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Until very recently, any proposal to divest from police departments would have been dismissed by most city leaders as politically untenable. But as public pressure mounts in response to the killing of George Floyd at the hands of Minneapolis police — among many other glaring recent incidents of police brutality — the idea has gained a strong foothold among a small but growing contingent of locally elected leaders.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Case in point: In Minneapolis, the epicenter of the current wave of protests, a veto-proof majority of \u003ca href=\"https://www.mprnews.org/story/2020/06/07/vetoproof-majority-minneapolis-council-members-gives-support-dismantling-police-department\">nine City Council members\u003c/a> recently said they would move to dismantle the city's long-troubled police force, even as the mayor declined to support the effort.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti \u003ca href=\"https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2020-06-04/lapd-budget-cuts-garcetti-protests-explainer\">grabbed headlines\u003c/a> this month when he unveiled a proposal to take $150 million from the city's massive police budget of over $1 billion and reinvest it in jobs programs, health initiatives and other services in communities of color. Although some activists say that doesn't go anywhere far enough, it marks a significant turnaround from April, when the mayor proposed a 7% funding \u003cem>increase\u003c/em> for the police. And on Monday – in an meeting once considered unthinkable – the Los Angeles City Council \u003ca href=\"https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2020-06-15/black-lives-matter-lapd-spending-peoples-budget-los-angeles-city-council\">heard from a coalition of activists\u003c/a> who presented a plan to end the city’s reliance on police officers and adopt new community safety strategies.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Lessons From a City That Disbanded the Police\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Disbanding a police department and starting from scratch is not without precedent in the U.S. The city of Camden, New Jersey did it in 2013.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Following years of unabated violent crime, the city council \u003ca href=\"https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2020/06/12/camden-policing-reforms-313750\">literally shut down the police department\u003c/a> — one that had long been considered inept and corrupt — and created an entirely new non-unionized department under county control. All officers were laid off and had to reapply for their jobs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since then, the city's homicide rate has plummeted, as have once-plentiful excessive force complaints, while community-police relations seem to have significantly improved. The overhaul wasn’t a panacea by any stretch — problems with police accountability and racial disparities still exist in the city — but the experiment is \u003ca href=\"https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2020/06/12/camden-policing-reforms-313750\">generally considered a success\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In California, however, many liberal leaders wary of appearing soft on crime or of incurring the wrath of powerful police unions are walking a fine line on an inherently thorny issue, acknowledging the need for reforms while clearly remaining reluctant to support sweeping overhauls.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>At a recent forum in Oakland on policing and racism, Gov. Gavin Newsom \u003ca href=\"https://www.mercurynews.com/2020/06/09/gov-newsom-holds-meeting-on-racism-and-system-injustices-in-oakland-visits-miss-ollies/\">tiptoed around the issue\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If you’re calling for eliminating police, no,” he said. “If you’re talking about reimagining and taking the opportunity to look at the responsibility and role that we place on law enforcement to be social workers, mental health workers, get involved in disputes where a badge and a gun are unnecessary, then I think absolutely this is an opportunity to look at all of the above.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the Bay Area, city leaders are beginning to propose policing reforms of various size and scope. None, though, has yet acceded to protesters' demands to completely dismantle or defund entire departments.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here is the latest on what top local officials have so far proposed in the region's three largest cities, each of which has had its own troubling history of policing in Black and brown communities.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>San Francisco\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>SFPD budget (2019-20): \u003ca href=\"https://sfmayor.org/sites/default/files/CSF_Budget_Book_June_2019_Final_Web_REV2.pdf\">$695.7 million\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\nSworn officers: 2,260\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Update: On July 31, San Francisco Mayor London Breed \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11831527/sf-mayor-breeds-new-budget-would-redirect-120-million-from-police-to-citys-black-community\">unveiled a proposed budget\u003c/a> that includes pulling $120 million dollars from law enforcement agencies and putting it into programs that support the city’s largely underserved Black community. The previous month, Breed also directed the police department to no longer\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11824152/san-francisco-police-wont-respond-to-non-criminal-calls\"> respond to noncriminal complaints\u003c/a>, revise its accountability and anti-bias practices and stop using military-grade equipment.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Despite pressure from activists on the street, Breed made clear she has no intention of dismantling the city's police department.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>“We know that a lack of equity in our society overall leads to a lot of the problems that police are being asked to solve,” Breed said in a statement. “We are going to keep pushing for additional reforms and continue to find ways to reinvest in communities that have historically been underserved and harmed by systemic racism.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Breed additionally proposed strengthening police accountability and anti-bias policies, and banning the department's use of military-grade weapons. She also joined Supervisor Shamann Walton in calling to divert an unspecified amount of funding from SFPD's budget to support programs in the city's African American community as a reparation for city policies that led to “decades of disinvestment.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While few details about that plan have been given, Walton \u003ca href=\"https://missionlocal.org/2020/06/san-francisco-police-chief-bill-scott-open-to-defunding-police-department/#:~:text=The%20chief%2C%20who%20oversees%20a,to%20be%20done%20%E2%80%9Cthoughtfully.%E2%80%9D\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">told Mission Local\u003c/a> he wanted to see “at least $25 million” redirected from the police department “if we are really trying to change some of the systemic issues oppressing Black people here in San Francisco.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Breed's reform proposals don’t include a budget or specifics, but are rather intended as a set of guidelines for the city's Police Commission and other city agencies to map out over the coming year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Francisco Police Chief Bill Scott recently said he was \"open\" to defunding a portion of his own department, as long as it's done \"thoughtfully.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re at a time in policing in this country where the whole world is speaking to us and we need to hear what’s being said,” \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/crime/article/Defund-San-Francisco-police-Chief-Bill-Scott-15328129.php\">Chief Scott said\u003c/a> during a panel hosted by the Alice B. Toklas LGBT Democratic Club on June 8. “And what’s being said is, ‘We have to change the way we do policing in this country.’ And I think for me, I’m open to that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Oakland\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>OPD budget (2019-20): \u003ca href=\"https://cao-94612.s3.amazonaws.com/documents/FY-2019-21-Adopted-Budget-Policy-Book-FINAL-WEB-VERSION.pdf\">$318.7 million\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\nSworn officers: 792\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>UPDATE: On June 23, the Oakland City Council passed a budget that included \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/Oakland-City-Council-approves-budget-with-minimal-15362949.php\">more than $14 million\u003c/a> in cuts to its police department — mostly by shifting some non-sworn positions into other departments, freezing vacant jobs for sworn officers and delaying a police academy. City leaders pledged to reallocate those savings to fund alternative safety measures, including the creation of a non-police unit to respond to some 911 mental health crisis calls. The city also plans to convene a committee tasked with shifting public safety resources from enforcement to prevention services, with the \u003ca href=\"https://www.oaklandca.gov/news/2020/oaklands-mid-cycle-budget-cuts-14-3-million-from-police-budget-invests-additional-50-million-to-address-racial-disparities\">eventual stated goal\u003c/a> of reducing OPD's budget by 50%. Although a nod to activists' defunding demands, the new budget fell far short of the more substantial cuts that many are demanding.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Top officials in Oakland have so far mostly supported leaving the Oakland Police Department’s hefty budget largely intact.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\n\u003cp>But similar to Breed, Schaaf emphasized that defunding the department was not a prudent path to take.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Schaaf said Oakland needs a well-funded, capable police force to keep the streets safe. The city's police officers responded to over 100,000 calls last year, she noted, and have been instrumental in saving lives, preventing crime and bringing justice to victims.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We have a moment where we can continue to see this divide, or choose a third story, where government intervention and armed response is no longer necessary,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Schaaf also touted her current budget proposal — one submitted before Floyd's death — as a step in the right direction. It would cut about $5 million from the police department, reflecting citywide reductions due to the coronavirus economic fallout, but add roughly $22 million to programs supporting affordable housing, homelessness services and job training, she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I do not believe we need to defund in order to invest in these community priorities,\" Schaaf said. \"That is what this budget does.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In an \u003ca href=\"https://abc7news.com/defund-the-police-what-does-mean-oakland-department-mayor/6241314/\">interview last week with ABC7\u003c/a>, she added, \"We also must invest, not divest in training and holding accountable our officers, to make sure they are policing without any bias, without any unnecessary force, that they are conducting themselves in the ways that are consistent with our progressive values in Oakland, that requires investment.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While offering little in the way of specifics, Schaaf suggested the need to invest in more \"non-law enforcement methods of safety,\" akin to Breed's proposal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"There is definitely room to create more responses that don't involve a gun or a badge,\" she said, noting a \u003ca href=\"https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/2019/7/1/20677523/mental-health-police-cahoots-oregon-oakland-sweden\">program in Eugene, Oregon\u003c/a> that dispatches mobile crisis response teams, not law enforcement, to handle about 20% of all 911 calls.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, Oakland City Councilwoman Nikki Fortunato Bas is taking a tack more in-line with protesters' demands, proposing Oakland divert some of the $300 million it spends on its police department to other social services and crisis responders.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To start, Bas said $25 million of the police budget should fund trained mediators and social service programs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In places like Oakland, where we've been under a negotiated settlement agreement to get to constitutional policing, and we have not achieved that in 17 years, I think the time for reform is over,” she said. “We have to rethink how we get to safety.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>The killing of George Floyd by a Minneapolis police officer has left much of the country reeling. Police have clashed with protesters nationwide, and many have publicly described feelings of despair and outrage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Friday, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11821834/bay-area-protests-over-death-of-george-floyd\">at an Oakland demonstration for George Floyd\u003c/a>, protesters described a different feeling, if only for a short while — awe.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A woman astride a large brown horse rode majestically through the crowd that evening, even as police and protesters prepared to square off in protests that would eventually descend into clouds of tear gas, flash grenades and open anger for justice.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/SFNewsReporter/status/1266553974695424002\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Brianna Noble, 25, rode atop her gelding, Dapper Dan, fist held high, with a sign reading “Black Lives Matter” hanging next to her. Photos of Noble and Dapper Dan leading the crowd were described on social media as inspirational \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/BlackAFMermaid/status/1266909267862319110\">and led to a striking moment of hope\u003c/a> during what's been a turbulent several days of protests.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Noble told KQED that was all part of the plan. Raised in the Bay Area and Oakland, a self-described horsewoman \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/MulattoMeadows/\">and owner of Mulatto Meadows ranch in Martinez\u003c/a>, Noble talked to KQED's Joe Fitzgerald Rodriguez about the experience.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This interview has been edited for clarity and brevity.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11822236\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11822236\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/Image-from-iOS-7-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Brianna Noble said she's heard from people from around the world, including Australia, Canada, and the United Kingdom, who have seen photos of her riding her horse Dapper Dan.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/Image-from-iOS-7-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/Image-from-iOS-7-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/Image-from-iOS-7-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/Image-from-iOS-7.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Brianna Noble said she's heard from people from around the world, including Australia, Canada and the United Kingdom, who have seen photos of her riding her horse Dapper Dan. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Joe Fitzgerald Rodriguez:\u003c/strong> What do you think of the reaction to you and Dapper Dan?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Brianna Noble:\u003c/strong> I decided to take my horse out to the protest to kind of change the narrative of what's going on. I wanted to give the media something positive. A good, bright, positive image to focus on, as opposed to some of the destruction.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But I did not realize that this was something \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/p/CAzJWgODsBU/\">that was going to go across the country\u003c/a>, across the world. I have people reaching out to me from Australia, from Canada, from the UK.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11822238\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11822238\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/Image-from-iOS-8-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Brianna Noble rode among demonstrators marching on Broadway in Oakland on May 29, 2020, during a protest over the Minneapolis police killing of George Floyd.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/Image-from-iOS-8-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/Image-from-iOS-8-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/Image-from-iOS-8-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/Image-from-iOS-8.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Brianna Noble rode among demonstrators marching on Broadway in Oakland on May 29, 2020, during a protest over the Minneapolis police killing of George Floyd. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>What is the change you rode Dapper Dan to call attention to?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I think that this is bigger than just one specific issue and one death. People are angry about what's happened, and we need to change an entire criminal justice system.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11822239\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11822239\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/Image-from-iOS-9-800x533.jpg\" alt='Brianna Noble, owner of Mulatto Meadows ranch in Martinez, said she brought her horse Dapper Dan because she wanted to offer a \"good, bright, positive image to focus on, as opposed to some of the destruction,\" during protests over the Minneapolis police killing of George Floyd.' width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/Image-from-iOS-9-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/Image-from-iOS-9-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/Image-from-iOS-9-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/Image-from-iOS-9.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Brianna Noble, owner of Mulatto Meadows ranch in Martinez, said she brought her horse, Dapper Dan, because she wanted to offer a \"good, bright, positive image to focus on, as opposed to some of the destruction,\" during protests over the Minneapolis police killing of George Floyd. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>What do you think it is about the image of someone atop a horse, and particularly in this moment, a black woman atop a horse, that can be so inspiring?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Their size, their size alone. My horse, Dapper Dan, is huge. He is a 17-hand horse. He weighs about 1,800 pounds. So he is actually much larger than most of the everyday horses that you'll see around. Couple that with the fact that you don't actually see too many black people — let alone black women — riding, at least not here in California. It's something that turns heads wherever I go.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It used to really bother me because it's dominated by white people riding horses in general, especially here in California, and I always felt like I stood out. Everywhere I go, it's like I'm the one yellow flower among the field of red roses, you know?\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11822240\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11822240\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/Image-from-iOS-6-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Brianna Noble and her horse Dapper Dan were among demonstrators marching on Broadway in Oakland on May 29, 2020, during a protest over the Minneapolis police killing of George Floyd.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/Image-from-iOS-6-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/Image-from-iOS-6-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/Image-from-iOS-6-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/Image-from-iOS-6.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Brianna Noble and her horse Dapper Dan were among demonstrators marching on Broadway in Oakland on May 29, 2020, during a protest over the Minneapolis police killing of George Floyd. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Tell us about Dapper Dan. 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"content": "\u003cp>Oakland's Police Commission voted unanimously to dismiss Police Chief Anne Kirkpatrick in a closed session meeting Thursday evening, a decision joined by Mayor Libby Schaaf, who said the trust between the civilian oversight body and the chief had been \"irrevocably lost.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Police Commission, created by voter approval of Measure LL in 2016, has the power to unilaterally fire a police chief for cause. Kirkpatrick was terminated without cause, which requires Schaaf's sign-off.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size='medium' align='right' citation=\"Libby Schaaf, Oakland Mayor\"]'I must respect the authority and the role of our independent Police Commission. I must respect key stakeholders who must have trust in our police chief.’[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I must respect the authority and the role of our independent Police Commission,\" Schaaf said at a press conference Thursday evening. \"I must respect key stakeholders who must have trust in our police chief.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Schaaf said she did not regret hiring Kirkpatrick, who took the job in early 2017 with a bold pledge to satisfy federal court oversight of the Police Department, which has been in place for 17 years. Since then, the federal court's monitor has repeatedly found Kirkpatrick's leadership lacking, notably \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11731203/federal-monitor-calls-opd-chiefs-take-on-shooting-disappointing-wants-stiffer-discipline\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">clashing\u003c/a> with the chief over her attempt to reduce discipline for officers who fatally shot a homeless man as he began to wake up in March 2018.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Federal monitor Robert Warshaw did not oppose Kirkpatrick's removal, Schaaf said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Since the Commission's inception, the Commissioners, along with the rest of the citizens of the City of Oakland, observed the Oakland Police Department's failure to increase compliance with the court-ordered reforms,\" Police Commission Chair Regina Jackson said in a written statement. \"Our new Chief must address use-of-force issues and end the need for a court-appointed monitor.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Later, in an interview, Jackson said the decision was not a dramatic move. \"Over the last two and a half years of working with the chief, we have become increasingly uncomfortable to the point that we've lost confidence in her ability to get us where we needed to go.\" \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jackson added that the community \"never had much trust\" in Kirkpatrick and that they continually asked for the chief's termination.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The mayor noted that Kirkpatrick was hired \"in the wake of a shameful episode\" — several OPD officers' \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11078483/oakland-seeks-to-fire-4-police-officers-discipline-7-in-sexual-exploitation-scandal\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">sexual exploitation\u003c/a> of a teenager — and praised her for bringing steady leadership that stabilized the department.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oakland hired Kirkpatrick after former Police Chief Sean Whent, and a \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/10992840/a-department-in-crisis-yet-another-oakland-police-chief-removed\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">succession\u003c/a> of two replacements left the post within a week in 2016.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oakland Police Officers' Association President Barry Donelan called the decision disappointing. He also criticized the Police Commission and mayor in a written statement, calling the city's police chief position \"the most difficult Chief's job in the nation.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"[F]ighting for Oakland's residents and Police Officers alike does not endear you to Oakland's unelected Police Commissioners and our Mayor,\" Donelan said. \"These events don't bode well for public safety in Oakland.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Civil rights attorney Jim Chanin, who brought forward the Oakland Riders case that resulted in the Police Department needing to make reforms, said it was time for change when asked about his reaction to Kirkpatrick's firing. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size='medium' align='left' citation=\"Barry Donelan, Oakland Police Officers' Association President\"]'These events don't bode well for public safety in Oakland.’[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"[Kirkpatrick] was not moving the department in the right direction,\" Chanin said. \"We were going further and further from full compliance.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dan Kalb, the Oakland City councilmember who authored Measure LL, which allowed the Police Commission to fire Kirkpatrick with the mayor's blessing, said he was surprised by the decision.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I knew there was some disagreements or some even some tension between many of the commissioners and the police chief, but I did not expect the firing of our police chief,\" Kalb said. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Kalb said he respects the commission's decision. He also said Kirkpatrick's three years in the police chief position is a \"decent amount of time\" for the department to make mandated reforms, and in recent years, he said there's been concern that the department was regressing in some areas.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Under this chief they made progress on one or two [of the reforms], but they also backtracked on a couple,\" Kalb said. \"So I think the commission was feeling frustrated that, in a couple of areas, the department was backtracking ... and that's a problem.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some observers raised concerns that Kirkpatrick's firing illustrates the lack of leadership consistency within the Police Department.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size='medium' align='right' citation=\"Jim Chanin, civil rights attorney\"]'You're going to have to do things that some people don't like in order to make this department go in the direction that we want it to go, it's not about pleasing everybody.’[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"There is a cost in turnover, but there is also a cost in keeping someone when we're not making progress,\" Chanin said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Robert Weisberg, co-chair of Stanford's Criminal Justice Center, said Kirkpatrick had to walk a fine line when trying to meet the demands of the federal monitor. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It's sad because I think she is a very well-regarded police chief and had a fair amount of trust, from the line officers,\" Weisberg said. \"It seems that she just had trouble navigating her way through the conflicting forces aligned against her.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Both Weisberg and Chanin said whoever steps into the police chief position will have a difficult job.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"You're going to have to do things that some people don't like in order to make this department go in the direction that we want it to go, it's not about pleasing everybody,\" Chanin said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Weisberg said the position is an \"extremely unattractive job\" and a \"no-win situation.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"You walk in with a shadow over what you’re doing because you’re walking into a court injunction,\" he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Because she was dismissed without cause, Kirkpatrick may be eligible for a year's salary in severance pay, Schaaf said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Deputy Chief Darren Allison will serve as acting police chief while Oakland conducts a national search for a permanent replacement for Kirkpatrick.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>KQED's Raquel Maria Dillon, Alex Emslie, Marnette Federis, Mina Kim and Tara Siler contributed to this report.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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The recommendations, made last month, are contained in documents Oakland released Thursday afternoon under Senate Bill 1421, the state’s new police transparency law.[pullquote size='small' align='right' citation='Jim Chanin,\u003cbr>civil rights attorney']'I think we’re entering a new day.'[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Warshaw, who is both the department’s court appointed monitor and its compliance director, had earlier this year \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11731203/federal-monitor-calls-opd-chiefs-take-on-shooting-disappointing-wants-stiffer-discipline\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">criticized\u003c/a> Kirkpatrick’s discipline of the officers — which deviated from recommendations of her own senior commanders — calling the chief’s thinking “disappointing and myopic.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The records released Thursday reveal that Warshaw not only disagreed but also ordered harsher punishment. 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The officers, who later said they thought he was about to shoot at them, fired their weapons.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In their report, police commissioners wrote that \u003ca href=\"https://www.eastbayexpress.com/SevenDays/archives/2018/11/01/oakland-police-release-video-of-officers-fatally-shooting-a-homeless-man\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">video\u003c/a> from the an officer's body camera placed on top of an armored vehicle brought to the scene “confirms that Mr. Pawlik’s response to Officers attempting to rouse him was to act consistently as a man who was sleeping, unconscious or drunk and being startled and awoken from his slumber.”[aside postID='news_11732632,news_11731203,news_11729878' label='Joshua Pawlik Shooting' heroLink=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/joshua-pawlik\" target=\"_blank\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Commissioners went on to write: “The video also confirms that at no time did Mr. Pawlik raise the handgun towards the officers or otherwise in a threatening manner towards Officers. 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So I think we’re entering a new day.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chanin said the commission’s findings are “not good for” Kirkpatrick, noting that the majority of its members were appointed by Mayor Libby Schaaf, who \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11253123/after-long-search-oakland-naming-new-police-chief\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">hired the chief\u003c/a> following a widespread \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/10992840/a-department-in-crisis-yet-another-oakland-police-chief-removed\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">sexual exploitation case\u003c/a> centered in the Police Department.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The commission, “a completely independent body separate from Warshaw, came to virtually the same conclusion that he did which was very, very different from the one that she came to,” Chanin said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Schaaf was out of the country Wednesday and not available for comment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The civilian police commission represents the community’s voice in this issue, and their findings are another step to provide transparency and accountability to all residents,” mayor's spokesman Justin Berton said.[aside tag='police-records' hero=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/03/Police-Art_1-1.gif\" heroLink=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/police-records\" target=\"_blank\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Police Department directed a request for comment to a statement by a spokeswoman for the City Administrator's Office, who wrote that the officers have the right to appeal the proposed discipline.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The City of Oakland supports the due process rights of all employees,” Spokeswoman Karen Boyd wrote in the statement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pawlik’s mother, Kelly Pawlik, said in a phone interview Thursday that she was pleased with both decisions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I am in favor of the officers being terminated,” she said, adding that she hopes that it leads to reforms “for the entire Police Department.” The officers, she said, could have approached her son as he was asleep and “stepped on the gun and kicked it away. 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