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"content": "\u003cp>The Oakland branch of the NAACP announced Monday that it is partnering with the city and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/oakland-police-department\">police department\u003c/a> to recruit new officers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At a press conference alongside Councilmember Charlene Wang and representatives from Mayor Barbara Lee’s office, local NAACP leaders said volunteers will visit churches and community events to encourage residents to apply to join the force, which is still struggling to emerge from more than 20 years of federal \u003ca href=\"https://www.oaklandca.gov/files/assets/city/v/1/police/documents/opd-policies-and-resources/police-conduct-report-and-reforms-2003/background-fact-sheet-on-negotiated-settlement-agreement.pdf\">oversight\u003c/a>. The department was placed \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/forum/2010101891855/oakland-police-departments-brutality-corruption-and-cover-up-and-long-road-toward-reform\">under consent decree in 2003\u003c/a> after more than 100 Oakland citizens alleged sadistic beatings, evidence tampering and other abuses by a group of OPD officers known as the Riders.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Now, I know there are many people out there wondering why in the world is the NAACP partnering with OPD, given some of the negative and bad history of OPD in this community,” said retired Alameda County Superior Court Judge Brenda Harbin-Forte, a member of the NAACP executive committee.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Harbin-Forte explained that most of the victims she saw while on the criminal court bench were African Americans and other people of color.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are partnering because our community needs the help, and the NAACP is a community organization.\u003cem>”\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to OPD, the department currently has 644 sworn officers, including 511 available for full-duty, far below the 877, a recent city-commissioned \u003ca href=\"https://www.oaklandca.gov/files/assets/city/v/1/inspector-general/documents/published-reports/pfm-opd-staffing-study.pdf\">study\u003c/a> said are needed. Last week, OPD \u003ca href=\"https://www.oaklandca.gov/News-Releases/Police/OPD-Reassigns-Traffic-Officers-to-Strengthen-Patrol-Coverage?\">announced\u003c/a> it would reassign half a dozen traffic cops to patrol duty due to ongoing staffing challenges.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12027694\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12027694\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250218_Oak-Mayoral_DMB_00029.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250218_Oak-Mayoral_DMB_00029.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250218_Oak-Mayoral_DMB_00029-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250218_Oak-Mayoral_DMB_00029-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250218_Oak-Mayoral_DMB_00029-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250218_Oak-Mayoral_DMB_00029-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250218_Oak-Mayoral_DMB_00029-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">(Left to right) Kara Murray-Badal, Charlene Wang and Kanitha Matoury discuss issues facing voters as they run for a vacant City Council seat at a public forum hosted by Greenbelt Alliance, Housing Action Coalition and East Bay for Everyone, in downtown Oakland, California, on Feb. 18, 2025. \u003ccite>(David M. Barreda/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Wang, who chairs the city’s Public Safety Committee, said those challenges feel personal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I still think about the three police officers that came to me in 2018 and saved my life,” she said, describing how she survived an incident of domestic violence. “We need hometown heroes … If you act with integrity, if you want to help us solve this crime, please sign up.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lee’s office said the recruitment push will draw from existing budget allocations, including funds for five police academies and marketing to fill them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Mayor Lee is committed to getting to 700 officers as approved by voters under the NN Measure,” said Rev. Damita Davis-Howard, Lee’s public safety director.[aside postID=news_12053148 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250821-OAK-CHINATOWN-ROBBERIES-MD-01-KQED.jpg']Oakland’s NAACP is not completely alone in its decision to help lead a police recruiting campaign — a Baltimore County chapter made a similar \u003ca href=\"https://www.baltimorecountymd.gov/departments/police/news/baltimore-county-police-department-and-randallstown-naacp-launch-innovative\">commitment\u003c/a> in December. But the Bay Area group’s recent positions on public safety have drawn heat from other Black leaders in Oakland who have \u003ca href=\"https://oaklandside.org/2023/09/20/oakland-naacp-hijacked-conservative-black-community-leaders/\">criticized \u003c/a>the NAACP for aligning with conservative political voices, spreading \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2024/06/24/nx-s1-5018077/black-activists-in-oakland-blame-the-local-naacp-branch-for-misinformation-on-crime\">misinformation \u003c/a>and deviating from the national NAACP’s traditional role as a police watchdog and advocate for reform.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2023, the group \u003ca href=\"https://www.berkeleyscanner.com/content/files/2023/07/oakland-naacp-op-ed-crime-7272023.pdf?\">called\u003c/a> for a “state of emergency” over rising crime, which members blamed on antipolice rhetoric and progressive politics. Harbin-Forte also led the recall effort against \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12009524/two-big-recall-elections-in-the-east-bay\">former Oakland Mayor Sheng Thao\u003c/a>, until she stepped down to run for Oakland city attorney.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Councilmember Carroll Fife is critical of Oakland’s NAACP leadership but said that she believes Lee “is doing exactly what she was elected to do” in bringing people together, even those with disparate voices.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oakland NAACP President Cynthia Adams agreed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are a nonpartisan organization,” she said. “We’re here to make sure that our city is safe for everyone. No more division in Oakland. It’s over as of this day.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The next police academy class begins Nov. 8, and city officials said they hope to fill all 40 seats.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Sept. 26: A previous version of this story incorrectly said Harbin-Forte led the recall effort against former Alameda County District Attorney Pamela Price. She led the recall campaign against former Oakland Mayor Sheng Thao, which was backed by the Oakland NAACP. The story has been edited to correct the inaccuracy.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cp>The arraignment of a man accused of punching an Oakland police officer in an unprovoked attack last week was called off after he refused to appear in court on Wednesday for the reading of his charges, according to the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/alameda-county\">Alameda County\u003c/a> district attorney’s office.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lawrence Holley, 48, was arrested Friday afternoon near 104th Avenue and International Boulevard on suspicion of assaulting an Oakland police officer, who was sitting in his patrol vehicle when Holley came up to his window and began repeatedly punching him, prosecutors say. Holley was taken to Santa Rita Jail with bail set at $150,000.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Holley, who was on felony probation at the time of the attack, is charged with felony assault likely to cause great bodily injury, resisting a police officer and causing injury, according to Alameda County \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12024318/alameda-countys-next-da-will-be-named-today-heres-what-to-know\">District Attorney Ursula Jones Dickson\u003c/a> — charges that drew praise from the Oakland police officers union. His arraignment was rescheduled for Thursday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If we are asking the police to protect us, then we must also protect them when they are the victim of an unprovoked assault,” Jones Dickson, who campaigned on a promise to improve public safety, said in a statement on Tuesday. “Today, we have filed felony assault charges that reflect the outrageous nature and seriousness of the case.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Huy Nguyen, president of the Oakland Police Officers Association, said Jones Dickson is showing people that “there is a new district attorney in the county.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12027613\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12027613 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250218-AlCoDASwornIn-07.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250218-AlCoDASwornIn-07.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250218-AlCoDASwornIn-07-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250218-AlCoDASwornIn-07-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250218-AlCoDASwornIn-07-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250218-AlCoDASwornIn-07-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250218-AlCoDASwornIn-07-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Alameda County District Attorney Ursula Jones Dickson speaks during a press conference at the René C. 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Last year, the city announced that it would be laying off several non-sworn Police Department employees, curbing overtime spending and closing two police academies for the remainder of the fiscal year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>OPD has contracted from more than 800 officers a few years ago to 675, and because more than 100 officers are out on leave, the number that can actually respond to calls for service is much lower, Nguyen said.[aside postID=news_12033381 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250218_Oak-Mayoral_DMB_00156_qed-1020x680.jpg']“The Police Department continues to shrink, and it creates a much more challenging work environment for our officers,” he said. “We’re unable to respond to calls from community members. That’s an issue that we need to fix, especially if we want to gain their trust.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When officers fail to respond to calls or respond too late, the tension between residents and officers only gets worse, Nguyen said, adding that last week’s attack suggests that people are less concerned about being held accountable for their actions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The situation is dire for both residents and officers who might be targeted amid mounting frustrations, he added.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oakland’s violent crime rate, which includes homicide, aggravated assault, rape and robbery, was nearly 20% lower last year than the year prior, falling from 7,900 violent crimes to 6,361, according to OPD’s \u003ca href=\"https://cityofoakland2.app.box.com/s/sjiq7usfy27gy9dfe51hp8arz5l1ixad/file/1743494392012\">end-of-year crime report\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, Nguyen said that comparing crime rates to record highs is not an indicator that public safety is improving. The focus instead should be on making Oakland a place where people feel safe and comfortable, and that is not the case, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Our community members don’t see what our officers are facing, but we also understand the challenges our community members are facing,” Nguyen said. “I understand the frustration when they call, and we don’t respond in a timely manner.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>KQED’s \u003c/em>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/author/bkrans\">\u003cem>Brian Krans\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003cem> contributed to this report.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If we are asking the police to protect us, then we must also protect them when they are the victim of an unprovoked assault,” Jones Dickson, who campaigned on a promise to improve public safety, said in a statement on Tuesday. “Today, we have filed felony assault charges that reflect the outrageous nature and seriousness of the case.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Huy Nguyen, president of the Oakland Police Officers Association, said Jones Dickson is showing people that “there is a new district attorney in the county.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12027613\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12027613 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250218-AlCoDASwornIn-07.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250218-AlCoDASwornIn-07.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250218-AlCoDASwornIn-07-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250218-AlCoDASwornIn-07-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250218-AlCoDASwornIn-07-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250218-AlCoDASwornIn-07-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250218-AlCoDASwornIn-07-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Alameda County District Attorney Ursula Jones Dickson speaks during a press conference at the René C. Davidson Courthouse in Oakland on Feb. 18, 2025. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The attack reveals some of the more serious safety concerns facing law enforcement in the city, Nguyen said. The Oakland Police Department is understaffed and lacks sufficient support from city leaders, he noted, adding that the relationship between OPD and Oakland residents is strained because the city is not investing in public safety.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The city of Oakland is facing a $130 million budget deficit, and efforts to mitigate the shortfall have resulted in sweeping cuts to city services, including the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12017244/oaklands-budget-crisis-forcing-police-fire-cuts-more-will-be-needed\">Police Department\u003c/a>. Last year, the city announced that it would be laying off several non-sworn Police Department employees, curbing overtime spending and closing two police academies for the remainder of the fiscal year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>OPD has contracted from more than 800 officers a few years ago to 675, and because more than 100 officers are out on leave, the number that can actually respond to calls for service is much lower, Nguyen said.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>“The Police Department continues to shrink, and it creates a much more challenging work environment for our officers,” he said. “We’re unable to respond to calls from community members. That’s an issue that we need to fix, especially if we want to gain their trust.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When officers fail to respond to calls or respond too late, the tension between residents and officers only gets worse, Nguyen said, adding that last week’s attack suggests that people are less concerned about being held accountable for their actions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The situation is dire for both residents and officers who might be targeted amid mounting frustrations, he added.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oakland’s violent crime rate, which includes homicide, aggravated assault, rape and robbery, was nearly 20% lower last year than the year prior, falling from 7,900 violent crimes to 6,361, according to OPD’s \u003ca href=\"https://cityofoakland2.app.box.com/s/sjiq7usfy27gy9dfe51hp8arz5l1ixad/file/1743494392012\">end-of-year crime report\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, Nguyen said that comparing crime rates to record highs is not an indicator that public safety is improving. The focus instead should be on making Oakland a place where people feel safe and comfortable, and that is not the case, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Our community members don’t see what our officers are facing, but we also understand the challenges our community members are facing,” Nguyen said. “I understand the frustration when they call, and we don’t respond in a timely manner.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>KQED’s \u003c/em>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/author/bkrans\">\u003cem>Brian Krans\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003cem> contributed to this report.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>As \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/oakland\">Oakland\u003c/a> continues to grapple with concerns about public safety, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12026938/oakland-leaders-propose-plan-reopen-fire-stations-budget-crisis-threatens-more-closures\">a budget crisis\u003c/a> and a beleaguered police department, community organizers launched a campaign this week to revive the idea of creating an independent Northeastern University police force that would also patrol parts of the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Conflicting reports on the grassroots initiative, however, have led to widespread concern and confusion among students and community members.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>East Oakland Neighbors, an organization led by current and former city residents, is behind the latest campaign pushing for a police department that the private Northeastern University Oakland would operate. The organization said it did so after it was notified that the Oakland City Attorney’s Office rejected an original proposal from the university.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Clay Burch, the university’s regional security director and a former Oakland police captain, submitted that draft memorandum of understanding to the city last year to create an independent university police department that would function alongside but separate from the Oakland Police Department.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Its officers would possess the same powers as those in city police departments, such as the ability to carry a weapon and to use lethal force when necessary, and the department would share jurisdiction with OPD over East Oakland neighborhoods outside of campus, according to the MOU, which was rejected in January.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12011586\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241029-OAKLANDSCHOLARSHIPSTUDENTS-01-BL-KQED.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12011586\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241029-OAKLANDSCHOLARSHIPSTUDENTS-01-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241029-OAKLANDSCHOLARSHIPSTUDENTS-01-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241029-OAKLANDSCHOLARSHIPSTUDENTS-01-BL-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241029-OAKLANDSCHOLARSHIPSTUDENTS-01-BL-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241029-OAKLANDSCHOLARSHIPSTUDENTS-01-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241029-OAKLANDSCHOLARSHIPSTUDENTS-01-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241029-OAKLANDSCHOLARSHIPSTUDENTS-01-BL-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Northeastern University campus in Oakland on Oct. 29, 2024, formerly Mills College. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“For Oakland specifically, first and foremost, the campus and its surroundings must be safe and inviting,” Burch said in a \u003ca href=\"https://www.eastoaklandneighbors.org/eon-blog-specialelection2025/clay-burch-letter-to-east-oaklanders\">“letter to East Oaklanders”\u003c/a> posted on the East Oakland Neighbors’ website last week. “This town needs a procedurally just, constitutional police force that not only enforces the law — actually enforces the law — but also incorporates robust community outreach.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Although Burch is a Northeastern University employee and was cited as such in an \u003cem>Oaklandside\u003c/em> article that reported on the campaign on Monday, he told KQED that community members are leading the newest campaign, and a university spokesperson said that article “does not represent the facts.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Although much of the information was attributed to a Northeastern employee, none of it has been fact-checked with university leaders,” spokesperson Renata Nyul said in a statement. She did not specify what, if anything, was incorrect but said that the school has been in talks with the city about partnering in student safety initiatives.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Burch said in a statement to KQED that he is not leading the campaign run by East Oakland Neighbors and that his involvement has been misrepresented. He did not give further comments.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Stephanie Hayden, a Las Vegas resident who founded East Oakland Neighbors and used to live in Oakland, said the organization’s community outreach campaign will allow East Oakland residents to be a part of the conversation around new public safety ideas, with the goal of encouraging the city and Northeastern University to consider a revised version of the police proposal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_12011539 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241029-OAKLANDSCHOLARSHIPSTUDENTS-17-BL-KQED.jpg']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s no government involved in this, and Northeastern doesn’t have anything to do with us,” Hayden said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Northeastern University’s California-based campus is \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12011539/many-oakland-students-dont-go-to-college-this-new-scholarship-gives-some-a-chance\">located at the site of Mills College\u003c/a>, a former women’s liberal arts school in East Oakland. While the university itself is relatively secluded, rising crime rates in the area have led school officials to brainstorm ways of improving campus security and safety for the wider community.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, several Oakland residents and students don’t believe that bringing in more officers will improve public safety and are worried that a police force operating outside of federal oversight and jurisdictional safeguards would pose a threat to the community.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This lack of accountability is particularly alarming in a city like Oakland, where our police department \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/forum/2010101891855/oakland-police-departments-brutality-corruption-and-cover-up-and-long-road-toward-reform\">remains under federal oversight\u003c/a> after decades of violence, corruption and harm to our communities,” said Cat Brooks, co-founder of the Anti Police-Terror Project. “This new force would operate without those same checks, granting them even greater impunity to racially profile, assault and brutalize residents.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Brooks added that if the university really wanted to support the Oakland community, it would invest in affordable housing, job training programs and mental health services for residents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The potential cost of a university police force has also spurred backlash from students since this week’s campaign was publicized.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to Michael Ford, a manager in the city’s Department of Transportation who volunteers with East Oakland Neighbors as a private citizen, Burch told him that the university would cover the total cost of the new police department, starting with $20 million for 20 officers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11855899\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/01/018_Oakland_MLKCarCaravan_01182021.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11855899\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/01/018_Oakland_MLKCarCaravan_01182021.jpg\" alt=\"Cat Brooks, co-founder of Anti Police-Terror Project, speaks before a Martin Luther King Day car caravan starting at Middle Harbor Shoreline Park near the Port of Oakland on Jan. 18, 2021.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1278\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/01/018_Oakland_MLKCarCaravan_01182021.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/01/018_Oakland_MLKCarCaravan_01182021-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/01/018_Oakland_MLKCarCaravan_01182021-1020x679.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/01/018_Oakland_MLKCarCaravan_01182021-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/01/018_Oakland_MLKCarCaravan_01182021-1536x1022.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Cat Brooks, co-founder of Anti Police-Terror Project, speaks before a Martin Luther King Day car caravan leaves Middle Harbor Shoreline Park near the Port of Oakland on Jan. 18, 2021. \u003ccite>(BethLaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“That’s not necessarily where I want to see my tuition go,” said William Holloway, a first-year student.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Several students are petitioning against the proposal after this week’s news was shared in a student and alumni group chat. One student who chose to remain anonymous out of fear of retribution from the university said many of them are concerned that an independent police department will further the strain between students and locals.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“A police force of this nature has no interest in improving East Oakland,” a petition addressed to Burch and Daniel Sachs, dean of Northeastern University’s Oakland campus, states. The petition specifically names Burch and East Oakland Neighbors as the driving forces behind the renewed push for the police department rather than the university itself.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“More police isn’t always the answer to societal issues, and it largely fuels tensions between locals and governing bodies,” said Holloway, who is not involved in the petition. “The addition of more rather than a change of how is not something that’s necessarily going to fix things.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some city officials support the idea of a Northeastern University police department. Councilmember Noel Gallo, who is interim City Council president, said he understands the school’s desire for improved safety, especially as the campus community grows.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_12017244 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/04052023_downtownoaklandreactivation-181_qed.jpg']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oakland does not have enough police officers and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12018688/oakland-broad-cuts-public-safety-city-agencies-amid-massive-deficit\">is facing a major budget crisis\u003c/a>, and the proposal is an opportunity to fix that, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>City Attorney Ryan Richardson, who helped review the original proposal by Burch, said a private university having its own peace officers is not unheard of. The University of the Pacific, the University of Southern California and Stanford University have done it before.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the case of Northeastern University, however, the model Burch proposed isn’t authorized by California law, Richardson said, because it would create an independent, fully authorized police force outside of the local police department’s chain of command — which he called unprecedented in California. The city of Oakland would also be liable for everything the university police department does, according to the original MOU.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One option for private universities is to employ fully fledged peace officers who are working in the local jurisdiction’s police department as reserve officers, Richardson said. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s no government involved in this, and Northeastern doesn’t have anything to do with us,” Hayden said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Northeastern University’s California-based campus is \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12011539/many-oakland-students-dont-go-to-college-this-new-scholarship-gives-some-a-chance\">located at the site of Mills College\u003c/a>, a former women’s liberal arts school in East Oakland. While the university itself is relatively secluded, rising crime rates in the area have led school officials to brainstorm ways of improving campus security and safety for the wider community.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, several Oakland residents and students don’t believe that bringing in more officers will improve public safety and are worried that a police force operating outside of federal oversight and jurisdictional safeguards would pose a threat to the community.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This lack of accountability is particularly alarming in a city like Oakland, where our police department \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/forum/2010101891855/oakland-police-departments-brutality-corruption-and-cover-up-and-long-road-toward-reform\">remains under federal oversight\u003c/a> after decades of violence, corruption and harm to our communities,” said Cat Brooks, co-founder of the Anti Police-Terror Project. “This new force would operate without those same checks, granting them even greater impunity to racially profile, assault and brutalize residents.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Brooks added that if the university really wanted to support the Oakland community, it would invest in affordable housing, job training programs and mental health services for residents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The potential cost of a university police force has also spurred backlash from students since this week’s campaign was publicized.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to Michael Ford, a manager in the city’s Department of Transportation who volunteers with East Oakland Neighbors as a private citizen, Burch told him that the university would cover the total cost of the new police department, starting with $20 million for 20 officers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11855899\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/01/018_Oakland_MLKCarCaravan_01182021.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11855899\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/01/018_Oakland_MLKCarCaravan_01182021.jpg\" alt=\"Cat Brooks, co-founder of Anti Police-Terror Project, speaks before a Martin Luther King Day car caravan starting at Middle Harbor Shoreline Park near the Port of Oakland on Jan. 18, 2021.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1278\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/01/018_Oakland_MLKCarCaravan_01182021.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/01/018_Oakland_MLKCarCaravan_01182021-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/01/018_Oakland_MLKCarCaravan_01182021-1020x679.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/01/018_Oakland_MLKCarCaravan_01182021-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/01/018_Oakland_MLKCarCaravan_01182021-1536x1022.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Cat Brooks, co-founder of Anti Police-Terror Project, speaks before a Martin Luther King Day car caravan leaves Middle Harbor Shoreline Park near the Port of Oakland on Jan. 18, 2021. \u003ccite>(BethLaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“That’s not necessarily where I want to see my tuition go,” said William Holloway, a first-year student.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Several students are petitioning against the proposal after this week’s news was shared in a student and alumni group chat. One student who chose to remain anonymous out of fear of retribution from the university said many of them are concerned that an independent police department will further the strain between students and locals.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“A police force of this nature has no interest in improving East Oakland,” a petition addressed to Burch and Daniel Sachs, dean of Northeastern University’s Oakland campus, states. The petition specifically names Burch and East Oakland Neighbors as the driving forces behind the renewed push for the police department rather than the university itself.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“More police isn’t always the answer to societal issues, and it largely fuels tensions between locals and governing bodies,” said Holloway, who is not involved in the petition. “The addition of more rather than a change of how is not something that’s necessarily going to fix things.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some city officials support the idea of a Northeastern University police department. Councilmember Noel Gallo, who is interim City Council president, said he understands the school’s desire for improved safety, especially as the campus community grows.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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Walker allegedly told them he was an OPD officer driving home after getting off from work. During field sobriety tests, law enforcement observed “red and watery eyes, slow and slurred speech, and a noticeable odor of alcohol emanating from his breath and person,” according to court documents. His blood alcohol was recorded at 0.28%.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The following month, he was stopped again — this time while driving a patrol vehicle — and again failed field and blood-alcohol level tests, according to Price’s office.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label='Related Coverage' tag='pamela-price']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In her letter to Chief Floyd Mitchell, who was \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11980455/oakland-mayor-sheng-thao-appoints-floyd-mitchell-as-new-police-chief\">hired\u003c/a> in the spring after more than a yearlong search, and Acting Chief James Beere, who is temporarily leading the department while Mitchell completes state-mandated training, Price said she wants them to develop and implement clear policies related to on- and off-duty intoxication, citing OPD’s “documented history of mishandling disciplinary matters.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“As you know, my office cannot act to hold officers appropriately accountable if the responsible agency does not conduct a prompt and thorough investigation of the officers’ behavior,” Price said. “Having police officers intoxicated while on or off-duty represents a clear and present danger to the officer and the public.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last month, in the latest chapter of OPD’s more than 20-year struggle to emerge from federal oversight following a police misconduct settlement in the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11910447/from-scandal-to-scrutiny-how-vigilant-citizen-oversight-helped-reshape-oaklands-police-force\">Riders case\u003c/a>, a court ordered the chief of police to personally oversee the department’s investigations into OPD officers. In the order, U.S. District Judge William Orrick said he could “no longer tolerate the lack of integrity, consistency, and transparency with which Internal Affairs has operated.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The police chief is now required to discuss how the department is policing itself with city leaders every two weeks, alongside regular updates to the court. OPD still has yet to complete the last two of 55 court-ordered reforms related to the internal affairs investigations of officers suspected of on-the-job misconduct and ensuring that officers are disciplined consistently regardless of their race.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Price has said tension with the county’s police unions stems from her bringing \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12009076/mario-gonzalez-supporters-call-das-error-a-shame-as-2-officers-avoid-charges\">criminal charges against law enforcement officers\u003c/a> who killed civilians in the line of duty, something Price’s predecessor Nancy O’Malley did once during her nearly 14 years in office. Police unions have accused her of failing to hold criminals accountable for their actions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a statement, an OPD spokesperson said neither Chief Mitchell nor Assistant Chief Beere had received the letter from the Alameda County District Attorney’s Office. The department said it’s aware of the allegations made against its members and is cooperating with our outside law enforcement agencies on each case.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The employees in question were placed on administrative leave in June of 2023 and October of 2023, and the matters are under investigation,” the statement read.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Oakland Police Officers Association did not immediately respond to a request for comment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Court records show Harley is due in court on Oct. 31 for arraignment. Walker next appears on Nov. 8 for a pretrial hearing related to his two DUIs, which have been consolidated into one case.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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The state-purchased cameras are part of a surge in California Highway Patrol operations in Oakland as local authorities face criticism over crime and public safety.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is going to be a game changer,” Oakland Mayor Sheng Thao said. “If you’re going to commit a crime in Oakland, just know that we have the data that is needed now to ensure that we apprehend those who are causing havoc in our communities.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Flock Safety, the Atlanta company that makes the cameras, was contracted to provide 480 automatic license plate readers as part of the initiative, with 190 to be installed on highways and state right-of-ways and 290 on city streets. Last week, Newsom said, the CHP’s installation on state highways was completed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oakland has installed 126 on city streets so far and plans to finish with the rest by early November, Thao and police officials announced Thursday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The cameras can capture key identifying details including car type, color, license plate state, make, bumper stickers and decals, and whether a vehicle has a missing or covered plate, according to Flock Safety. They scan cars for information and then compare the data with a crime database maintained by the FBI. 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"content": "\u003cp>An \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/oakland-police\">Oakland police\u003c/a> officer is on leave after a large-scale, illegal marijuana-growing operation was discovered at his Antioch home, the Oakland Police Department said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On an April morning, officers from the California Department of Cannabis Control used a power saw to cut through the steel-reinforced door at Samson Liu’s five-bedroom house in Contra Costa County. Inside they found exactly what they expected.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Every room was converted into a grow room,” said Charles Smith, deputy chief of law enforcement at the Department of Cannabis Control (DCC), which polices the illegal marijuana market in the Golden State. “The carpet and walls are covered with plastic, tables in every room, all of the electrical is haphazard and all over the place.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>DCC officers found more than 80 pounds of marijuana in Liu’s house. That same morning, they also raided two other homes on the block, filling a dump truck with about $1 million worth of weed cultivated by unlicensed growers. Whether the three houses are connected is still under investigation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The agency follows up on anonymous tips to identify illicit cannabis operations, which is how officers found Liu’s house in Antioch. Agents surveyed the property and identified an excessively high use of electric power from the home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12002851\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12002851\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/OPDOfficerGrowHouse2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/OPDOfficerGrowHouse2.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/OPDOfficerGrowHouse2-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/OPDOfficerGrowHouse2-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/OPDOfficerGrowHouse2-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/OPDOfficerGrowHouse2-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/OPDOfficerGrowHouse2-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Officers used a power saw to cut through a reinforced steel door during a raid on April 30, 2024, of a marijuana grow house owned by Oakland Police Officer Samson Liu. \u003ccite>(Courtesy California Department of Cannabis Control)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>However, DCC officers didn’t realize Liu was an Oakland police officer until they began their investigation, and they notified the Oakland Police Department on the day of the raid.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A spokesperson for the Oakland Police Department told KQED on Tuesday that Liu was placed on administrative leave effective April 30 and said the matter is still under investigation, declining to provide further details. Liu’s Oakland Police Department salary in 2023 was $137,239.46, with an additional $157,814.37 in overtime, according to watchdog site Transparent California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Although California voters legalized adult consumption of marijuana in 2016, illegal pot is still big business. The benefits of participating in the underground economy are obvious.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s just lucrative. It’s a cash business,” Smith said. “You don’t have to pay any taxes. You don’t have to pay any overhead. A lot of the individuals that are brought in for labor are being taken advantage of, and therefore [growers] have really low overhead, and they can make a lot of money.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_12002332 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/BontaCannabis2-1020x608.jpg']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Smith and investigators are not sure why the Contra Costa area in particular has become a hotbed of illegal indoor cultivation. A recent CNN investigation that first reported Liu’s connection to the home raided in April found that Antioch has had the second-most marijuana raids in the state, just after Los Angeles.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I don’t know if it’s just ease of getting into the market, lots of new houses, or if there’s something else going on,” Smith said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Illegal cultivation can pose high risks for consumers and for neighbors of underground grow operations. “There’s the local risk of fire because they’re pulling so much power that they’re overloading and they’re usually bypassing the meters and the safeties on the house,” Smith said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Additionally, because they’re not regulated, growers are using all kinds of illegal pesticides and things that are hazardous to individuals who may consume them. You don’t want to smoke a pesticide — let alone illegal pesticides.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Just last week, DCC officers led an operation with the Unified Cannabis Enforcement Taskforce in Contra Costa County, carrying out four search warrants for illegal sites. The operation yielded the seizure of over 1,000 pounds of unlicensed pot products — including 2,300 plants — with a total value of over $2 million. Officers also confiscated seven firearms and nearly $20,000 in cash.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Significant mold was also found, which Smith said is common in indoor cultivation. Growing houses are extremely humid inside due to the water needed to grow the crop.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While the CNN investigation into the illegal operations in Antioch suggested a connection to foreign growers, particularly from China, Smith pointed out that local gangs and cartels are heavily involved and active in the underground cannabis economy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>DCC officers found more than 80 pounds of marijuana in Liu’s house. That same morning, they also raided two other homes on the block, filling a dump truck with about $1 million worth of weed cultivated by unlicensed growers. Whether the three houses are connected is still under investigation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The agency follows up on anonymous tips to identify illicit cannabis operations, which is how officers found Liu’s house in Antioch. Agents surveyed the property and identified an excessively high use of electric power from the home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12002851\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12002851\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/OPDOfficerGrowHouse2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/OPDOfficerGrowHouse2.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/OPDOfficerGrowHouse2-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/OPDOfficerGrowHouse2-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/OPDOfficerGrowHouse2-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/OPDOfficerGrowHouse2-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/OPDOfficerGrowHouse2-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Officers used a power saw to cut through a reinforced steel door during a raid on April 30, 2024, of a marijuana grow house owned by Oakland Police Officer Samson Liu. \u003ccite>(Courtesy California Department of Cannabis Control)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>However, DCC officers didn’t realize Liu was an Oakland police officer until they began their investigation, and they notified the Oakland Police Department on the day of the raid.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A spokesperson for the Oakland Police Department told KQED on Tuesday that Liu was placed on administrative leave effective April 30 and said the matter is still under investigation, declining to provide further details. Liu’s Oakland Police Department salary in 2023 was $137,239.46, with an additional $157,814.37 in overtime, according to watchdog site Transparent California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Although California voters legalized adult consumption of marijuana in 2016, illegal pot is still big business. The benefits of participating in the underground economy are obvious.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s just lucrative. It’s a cash business,” Smith said. “You don’t have to pay any taxes. You don’t have to pay any overhead. A lot of the individuals that are brought in for labor are being taken advantage of, and therefore [growers] have really low overhead, and they can make a lot of money.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Smith and investigators are not sure why the Contra Costa area in particular has become a hotbed of illegal indoor cultivation. A recent CNN investigation that first reported Liu’s connection to the home raided in April found that Antioch has had the second-most marijuana raids in the state, just after Los Angeles.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I don’t know if it’s just ease of getting into the market, lots of new houses, or if there’s something else going on,” Smith said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Illegal cultivation can pose high risks for consumers and for neighbors of underground grow operations. “There’s the local risk of fire because they’re pulling so much power that they’re overloading and they’re usually bypassing the meters and the safeties on the house,” Smith said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Additionally, because they’re not regulated, growers are using all kinds of illegal pesticides and things that are hazardous to individuals who may consume them. You don’t want to smoke a pesticide — let alone illegal pesticides.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Just last week, DCC officers led an operation with the Unified Cannabis Enforcement Taskforce in Contra Costa County, carrying out four search warrants for illegal sites. The operation yielded the seizure of over 1,000 pounds of unlicensed pot products — including 2,300 plants — with a total value of over $2 million. Officers also confiscated seven firearms and nearly $20,000 in cash.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Significant mold was also found, which Smith said is common in indoor cultivation. Growing houses are extremely humid inside due to the water needed to grow the crop.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While the CNN investigation into the illegal operations in Antioch suggested a connection to foreign growers, particularly from China, Smith pointed out that local gangs and cartels are heavily involved and active in the underground cannabis economy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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Rape is down 8%, robberies are down 15%, and aggravated assaults are down 4% compared to the first half of last year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oakland’s crime data has come under scrutiny before. Last month, \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/crime/article/oakland-police-data-reports-19545681.php\">the \u003cem>San Francisco Chronicle\u003c/em> reported\u003c/a> that Oakland has been publishing misleading crime data for years. The review found police statistics overstated a reduction in crime, though it did find OPD’s data for homicides and violent crimes to be “mostly accurate.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Francisco also saw a decrease in its violent crimes, according to the Major Cities Chiefs Association report.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, Frederick Shavies, deputy chief of the Police Department’s Bureau of Investigations, said the U.S. Marshals Service arrested a young woman in Dallas in connection with the July 6 shooting death of another young woman at a First Friday celebration in Oakland.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">[aside postID=news_11989730 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/20161112_214941_qut-1020x765.jpg']\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Assistant Chief James Beere said Oakland police arrested three separate groups of people linked to two dozen assaults and robberies around the Westlake Christian Terrace retirement home near Lake Merritt.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’ve taken several proactive steps to sustain our operations and maintain the public safety in that area to work with the community leaders and meet with the residents,” Beere said. “We’re not taking our foot off the gas. We’re going to keep going forward, and we’re going to listen to the voices and concerns of our residents.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Beere said there has been an “uptick” in violent crime recently in West Oakland, adding that within the last three weeks, police have arrested several suspects and seized firearms equipped with things like high-capacity magazines and multi-burst triggers, “essentially making them machine guns.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Along with targeting gun violence in West and East Oakland, Beere said OPD will continue to target human trafficking on International Boulevard.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The people that are engaging in these activities are involved in a multitude of different crimes, and this actually reflects what we do see of those arrested,” Beere said, listing off several arrests, including a man from Arizona. “None of those arrested were actually Oakland residents. They come from all over the state, as well as one from out of state, which we see quite frequently.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Chief acknowledges failures over officer misconduct\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Mitchell said Friday that the department is reviewing its internal affairs policies and training after a federal monitor said its response to alleged officer misconduct remains inadequate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The federal monitor said in a report last week that Oakland police mishandled cases involving perjury and bribery allegations against a homicide detective and a sergeant who fired his gun inside a city building.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Asked about progress on the issue, Mitchell said turnover of the entire executive command staff is partly responsible for addressing failures within the internal affairs division, but he’s addressing those issues now.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Yes, there are some issues out there, but from my lens or the seat that I sit in, I want to make sure that we are continuing to educate our staff so we don’t continue to have these failures that keep us out of compliance,” Mitchell said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The department has been under federal court supervision since 2003. 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"content": "\u003cp>Across the Oakland Unified School District, the mantra for school staff is to call city police only as a last resort. If a disturbance occurs, they should rely first on in-house staff who don’t carry guns and can’t arrest anyone.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since voting in \u003ca href=\"https://edsource.org/2020/oakland-school-board-unanimously-agrees-to-eliminate-its-police-force/634544\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">June 2020\u003c/a> to disband its police department, Oakland has pursued one goal — to defuse conflict and avoid bringing in police and exposing students to the possibility of arrest. Oakland’s preference is for restorative justice, which emphasizes circle-of-trust interactions to improve how students treat one another.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Most of the time, it’s just having conversations with them (students),” said Eddie Franklin, a former security guard who is now part of the district’s new police-free staffing. “Let them authentically be themselves, and the goal becomes to chip away at the rough edges they might have.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s a strategy credited by the district with drastically reducing the 911 calls to city police from 2,128 during the 2019-20 school year, the last year the Oakland district had its own police department, to 200 in 2022-23.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But an EdSource analysis of data from the police shows a higher number of calls from just eight of the district’s 18 middle and high schools in half a year. The period from January to June 2023 shows those schools \u003ca class=\"external\" href=\"https://callingthecops.edsource.org/database?district=Oakland%20Unified\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">made 225 calls\u003c/a>, with 105 considered “serious” for reasons including assault with a deadly weapon, suicide attempts, battery and terrorist/criminal threats.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Oakland data was part of a statewide investigation of school policing across California. EdSource gathered nearly \u003ca class=\"external\" href=\"https://callingthecops.edsource.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">46,000 police logs of calls \u003c/a>from and about 852 schools. The data collection was designed as a representative sample of California schools.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Police track all calls from and about eight of the district’s 18 middle and high schools, while the district’s data captures calls made to police from all 106 schools.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Misha Karigaca, Oakland Unified’s director of student support and safety, could not fully reconcile the differences between the \u003ca class=\"external\" href=\"https://callingthecops.edsource.org/database?district=Oakland%20Unified\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">police call logs\u003c/a> and the district’s record of internal calls to police for the same time period.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If a 911 call comes from a cell phone and the call doesn’t get reported to my department, we will not have information about the call, which can also account for significant discrepancies,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=\"news_11989248,forum_2010101905485,news_11987651\" label=\"Related Stories\"]Karigaca and Board President Sam Davis acknowledged that while staff are trained when not to call 911 and to report any calls that they make, it doesn’t always happen. “We don’t capture every call in our data as (school) sites are required to notify us if law enforcement comes on campus; but we know of times when this hasn’t always happened,” Karigaca said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Davis said it’s also possible other staff are calling 911 for nonemergent reasons because “a lot of people reach the end of their rope for all sorts of reasons.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Oakland schools included in EdSource’s data are McClymonds, Castlemont, Fremont, Oakland, Skyline high schools and Montera, West Oakland and Westlake middle schools.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re not in a place where we can have completely police-free schools. That is our goal and what we’re working towards, but unfortunately, there are times when we do need police support,” Karigaca said. “It was our conditioning, whatever we needed they (police) would respond. It’s almost similar to our communities and our society — there’s not many other options. Anything that revolves around safety, we’re conditioned to call police.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In place for two school years, the new police-free plan is being evaluated locally and nationally on whether it is achieving what it set out to do.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Urban Institute, a Washington, D.C. think tank, in describing its study, put Oakland on the “leading edge of an emerging violence-reduction practice” happening in schools across the country, according to Jesse Jannetta, a senior policy fellow at the institute. Study results are expected in August.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Not everyone supports the decision to disband the district’s police department.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Board member Clifford Thompson said it was wrong for Oakland to disband its police department. “There’s little benefit to not having police at schools,” he said. “Totally eliminating the force without having a backup for those who need that type of force, it might not have been the best thing to do.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Getting to police-free\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003ca class=\"external\" href=\"https://blackorganizingproject.org/about/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">The Black Organizing \u003c/a>Project, a Bay Area community organization focused on racial, social and economic justice, has been advocating for the end of the police department since 2011. It finally happened in June 2020 with a unanimous vote of the school board.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oakland has had a fraught and violent history of racism and police abuse of Black people for nearly 80 years, which factored greatly into the final push to disband the department following the murder of George Floyd by Minneapolis police in 2020.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The city’s Black population increased dramatically during World War II when slave descendants migrated west from Louisiana, Arkansas and Texas. Police officers from those states were quickly recruited and stationed in Black neighborhoods. In 1950, a civil rights leader told the state Assembly that Black people lived “in daily and nightly terror” of Oakland police, according to a 1950 State Assembly report. The police department in Oakland Unified was born in 1957.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After more than 60 years of having an embedded police department in Oakland schools, educators, city officials and community partners are working to untangle the decades of policing culture and running its own police department.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There’s no contract or memorandum of understanding with the Oakland Police Department, but the district shares what staff are taught about when to call 911 and how to interact with police.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oakland’s \u003ca class=\"external\" href=\"https://www.oaklandca.gov/departments/violence-prevention\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Department of Violence Prevention\u003c/a> recently reported to a joint council-district committee on the \u003ca class=\"external\" href=\"https://edsource.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/OUSD-Education-Committee-report.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">plan’s progress\u003c/a>. The city of Oakland invested $2.4 million in the 2022-23 school year to address violence in schools by creating a \u003ca class=\"external\" href=\"https://www.oaklandca.gov/projects/school-violence-intervention-and-intervention-program\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">School Violence Intervention and Prevention Program\u003c/a> and hiring life coaches, violence interrupters and gender-based violence specialists to four comprehensive high schools and three continuation high schools.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gender-based violence specialists are unique to Oakland, Jannetta said. The specialists have workshops about dating violence, stalking, sexual harassment, sexual assault and commercial sexual exploitation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Through surveys, officials found these extra staffers have more relatability to students, can focus on individual needs, and alleviate some of this work from teachers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s too early to evaluate whether it is working, but the district is going in a positive direction, said Jessica Black, director of administration for the Black Organizing Project.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Getting to a police-free school environment also faces challenges. City and school officials say violence, especially among 14 to 18-year-olds in the city, bleeds into the school district.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During the 2022-23 school year, there were more than 600 high school suspensions and two shootings at OUSD high schools, according to the report. One of \u003ca href=\"https://edsource.org/updates/two-arrested-after-shooting-at-oakland-high-school\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">last year’s shootings\u003c/a> was at Skyline High School, and just last month, another shooting occurred during the high school’s graduation that injured three people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The city’s analysis of school violence puts some of the blame on the heightened crime in the city. According to the report, there’s been an increase in violence on campuses “that is related to community conflicts as well as an increase in instances of non-students showing up at school campuses with weapons to fight students.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Despite the challenges, the school board has not considered reinstating the district’s police department, Davis confirmed. Oakland Unified Superintendent Kyla Johnson-Trammell declined to comment through a district spokesperson.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>When to call police\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>One of the Black Organizing Project’s goals was to “uproot the security structure,” said Jasmine Williams, development director. With community support, the project pushed to restructure campus police, including getting rid of badges or anything that emulates the police and installing new titles, training, and redesigning the shirts they wear.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The district is not coming up with this stuff on their own,” the project’s Jessica Black said. “We’re literally pushing the district to think differently.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oakland administrators can call for “nonviolent de-escalation support” from staff known as culture and climate ambassadors when there are fights, a student is causing harm to themselves or others, or unwelcome visitors are on campuses, according to the School Administrator Guidance to Police Free Response. There’s a nonemergency line administrators can call to dispose of firearms or illegal drugs, when there’s suspicion of a crime, or during lockdowns. For mental health crises, administrators also have different people to reach out to depending on the situation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Students can still be disciplined, including suspended, but that’s rarely the first option, Karigaca said. Most of the time, interventions take place.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s offering a conduit of other opportunities, such as a restorative session, once both parties are in a place to have a restorative session,” Karigaca said. “Sometimes it’s going to take a walk or going to a different office; sometimes it’s calling parents or connecting with a community resource.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>District police-free guidelines give a variety of reasons when calling 911 is appropriate: active shooters, fire, medical emergencies, a person with a gun or explosive, bomb threats, serious injuries, hostage situations, abduction or kidnapping, violent crimes, death at a school site, emergency evacuations, or any situation posing danger to health or safety.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Students can be arrested for some of these incidents, Karigaca said, but usually, students aren’t arrested as a result of staff calling 911. There are about four to five arrests every school year, and it’s typically because police are arresting students for something they did outside of school, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The district partners with organizations for alternative support, but sometimes they can’t immediately respond, Karigaca said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When we call CPS (Child Protective Services) or any other mental health crisis response folks, a lot of times their staff is also under-resourced, and they aren’t able to respond,” Karigaca said. “Even they will tell us, ‘Call law enforcement.’”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>New titles for security guards\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>As Eddie Franklin walked down the hallway of Bret Harte Middle School, it was as if every student knew who he was. Most would fist-pump him or shake his hand, and he knew every student’s name.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11989642\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2792px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/Screenshot-2024-06-10-at-12.58.02%E2%80%AFPM.png\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11989642\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/Screenshot-2024-06-10-at-12.58.02%E2%80%AFPM.png\" alt=\"A young Black boy wearing a grey shirt and backpack gives a special handshake to a Black man wearing a black jacket with a logo on the side in a school building.\" width=\"2792\" height=\"1606\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/Screenshot-2024-06-10-at-12.58.02 PM.png 2792w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/Screenshot-2024-06-10-at-12.58.02 PM-800x460.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/Screenshot-2024-06-10-at-12.58.02 PM-1020x587.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/Screenshot-2024-06-10-at-12.58.02 PM-160x92.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/Screenshot-2024-06-10-at-12.58.02 PM-1536x884.png 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/Screenshot-2024-06-10-at-12.58.02 PM-2048x1178.png 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/Screenshot-2024-06-10-at-12.58.02 PM-1920x1104.png 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2792px) 100vw, 2792px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Eddie Franklin, the culture and climate ambassador for Oakland Unified, shakes a student’s hand while walking down the hallway. \u003ccite>( Andrew Reed / EdSource)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Franklin has been at OUSD for seven years and used to be a security guard who worked with police and used handcuffs for detaining students. He became a culture keeper four years ago. Now, he’s what’s called a culture and climate ambassador.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Franklin said he brings “an unbiased approach” to every situation, even if the student is acting negatively. “Your goal is to actually make them (students) see and critically think about what’s in the best interest of both sides.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Security guards were replaced with culture keepers and culture and climate ambassador who have leadership roles and assist culture keepers when needed, Karigaca said. The main priorities for all roles are to de-escalate violence and create positive relationships with students and staff.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The 63 culture keepers are spread around the district: up to three in middle schools; up to six in most high schools. Five elementary schools also have culture keepers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When Franklin was a culture keeper, he said his day-to-day work evolved into understanding the different personalities on campus to get a better understanding of student behavior.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“So you don’t overreact when they do some of the things they do,” Franklin said. “But also try to give them an idea of what they can do differently.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As a culture and climate ambassador, Franklin is deployed to different schools when extra support is needed, Karigaca said. Most of the time, they roam around different schools, building relationships.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Franklin said he oversees 13 middle schools and does check-ins with staff to talk about what kind of support they need. A big part is building trust, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When Franklin goes to a school, he said his goal is “to act like a parent, a positive parent, let them know I actually care about you and support you in whatever you do, and I’m not going to be over the top if I react to something that you did negative.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To other districts looking at Oakland as an example, Williams, of the Black Organizing Project, said she doesn’t want the message to be “all you have to do is implement a policy.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It took us 10 years of fighting to get here, and we are still fighting within the district,” Williams said. “It takes community to have even this much progress.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>EdSource reporters Thomas Peele; Daniel J. Willis and Andrew Reed contributed to this report.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv id=\"block-block_c8d99355f6b067ad9abc6a90072f701f\" class=\"block-related-articles alignright\">\u003c/div>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Across the Oakland Unified School District, the mantra for school staff is to call city police only as a last resort. If a disturbance occurs, they should rely first on in-house staff who don’t carry guns and can’t arrest anyone.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since voting in \u003ca href=\"https://edsource.org/2020/oakland-school-board-unanimously-agrees-to-eliminate-its-police-force/634544\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">June 2020\u003c/a> to disband its police department, Oakland has pursued one goal — to defuse conflict and avoid bringing in police and exposing students to the possibility of arrest. Oakland’s preference is for restorative justice, which emphasizes circle-of-trust interactions to improve how students treat one another.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Most of the time, it’s just having conversations with them (students),” said Eddie Franklin, a former security guard who is now part of the district’s new police-free staffing. “Let them authentically be themselves, and the goal becomes to chip away at the rough edges they might have.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s a strategy credited by the district with drastically reducing the 911 calls to city police from 2,128 during the 2019-20 school year, the last year the Oakland district had its own police department, to 200 in 2022-23.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But an EdSource analysis of data from the police shows a higher number of calls from just eight of the district’s 18 middle and high schools in half a year. The period from January to June 2023 shows those schools \u003ca class=\"external\" href=\"https://callingthecops.edsource.org/database?district=Oakland%20Unified\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">made 225 calls\u003c/a>, with 105 considered “serious” for reasons including assault with a deadly weapon, suicide attempts, battery and terrorist/criminal threats.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Karigaca and Board President Sam Davis acknowledged that while staff are trained when not to call 911 and to report any calls that they make, it doesn’t always happen. “We don’t capture every call in our data as (school) sites are required to notify us if law enforcement comes on campus; but we know of times when this hasn’t always happened,” Karigaca said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Davis said it’s also possible other staff are calling 911 for nonemergent reasons because “a lot of people reach the end of their rope for all sorts of reasons.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Oakland schools included in EdSource’s data are McClymonds, Castlemont, Fremont, Oakland, Skyline high schools and Montera, West Oakland and Westlake middle schools.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re not in a place where we can have completely police-free schools. That is our goal and what we’re working towards, but unfortunately, there are times when we do need police support,” Karigaca said. “It was our conditioning, whatever we needed they (police) would respond. It’s almost similar to our communities and our society — there’s not many other options. Anything that revolves around safety, we’re conditioned to call police.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In place for two school years, the new police-free plan is being evaluated locally and nationally on whether it is achieving what it set out to do.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Urban Institute, a Washington, D.C. think tank, in describing its study, put Oakland on the “leading edge of an emerging violence-reduction practice” happening in schools across the country, according to Jesse Jannetta, a senior policy fellow at the institute. Study results are expected in August.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Not everyone supports the decision to disband the district’s police department.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Board member Clifford Thompson said it was wrong for Oakland to disband its police department. “There’s little benefit to not having police at schools,” he said. “Totally eliminating the force without having a backup for those who need that type of force, it might not have been the best thing to do.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Getting to police-free\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003ca class=\"external\" href=\"https://blackorganizingproject.org/about/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">The Black Organizing \u003c/a>Project, a Bay Area community organization focused on racial, social and economic justice, has been advocating for the end of the police department since 2011. It finally happened in June 2020 with a unanimous vote of the school board.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oakland has had a fraught and violent history of racism and police abuse of Black people for nearly 80 years, which factored greatly into the final push to disband the department following the murder of George Floyd by Minneapolis police in 2020.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The city’s Black population increased dramatically during World War II when slave descendants migrated west from Louisiana, Arkansas and Texas. Police officers from those states were quickly recruited and stationed in Black neighborhoods. In 1950, a civil rights leader told the state Assembly that Black people lived “in daily and nightly terror” of Oakland police, according to a 1950 State Assembly report. The police department in Oakland Unified was born in 1957.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After more than 60 years of having an embedded police department in Oakland schools, educators, city officials and community partners are working to untangle the decades of policing culture and running its own police department.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There’s no contract or memorandum of understanding with the Oakland Police Department, but the district shares what staff are taught about when to call 911 and how to interact with police.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oakland’s \u003ca class=\"external\" href=\"https://www.oaklandca.gov/departments/violence-prevention\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Department of Violence Prevention\u003c/a> recently reported to a joint council-district committee on the \u003ca class=\"external\" href=\"https://edsource.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/OUSD-Education-Committee-report.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">plan’s progress\u003c/a>. The city of Oakland invested $2.4 million in the 2022-23 school year to address violence in schools by creating a \u003ca class=\"external\" href=\"https://www.oaklandca.gov/projects/school-violence-intervention-and-intervention-program\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">School Violence Intervention and Prevention Program\u003c/a> and hiring life coaches, violence interrupters and gender-based violence specialists to four comprehensive high schools and three continuation high schools.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gender-based violence specialists are unique to Oakland, Jannetta said. The specialists have workshops about dating violence, stalking, sexual harassment, sexual assault and commercial sexual exploitation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Through surveys, officials found these extra staffers have more relatability to students, can focus on individual needs, and alleviate some of this work from teachers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s too early to evaluate whether it is working, but the district is going in a positive direction, said Jessica Black, director of administration for the Black Organizing Project.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Getting to a police-free school environment also faces challenges. City and school officials say violence, especially among 14 to 18-year-olds in the city, bleeds into the school district.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During the 2022-23 school year, there were more than 600 high school suspensions and two shootings at OUSD high schools, according to the report. One of \u003ca href=\"https://edsource.org/updates/two-arrested-after-shooting-at-oakland-high-school\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">last year’s shootings\u003c/a> was at Skyline High School, and just last month, another shooting occurred during the high school’s graduation that injured three people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The city’s analysis of school violence puts some of the blame on the heightened crime in the city. According to the report, there’s been an increase in violence on campuses “that is related to community conflicts as well as an increase in instances of non-students showing up at school campuses with weapons to fight students.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Despite the challenges, the school board has not considered reinstating the district’s police department, Davis confirmed. Oakland Unified Superintendent Kyla Johnson-Trammell declined to comment through a district spokesperson.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>When to call police\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>One of the Black Organizing Project’s goals was to “uproot the security structure,” said Jasmine Williams, development director. With community support, the project pushed to restructure campus police, including getting rid of badges or anything that emulates the police and installing new titles, training, and redesigning the shirts they wear.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The district is not coming up with this stuff on their own,” the project’s Jessica Black said. “We’re literally pushing the district to think differently.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oakland administrators can call for “nonviolent de-escalation support” from staff known as culture and climate ambassadors when there are fights, a student is causing harm to themselves or others, or unwelcome visitors are on campuses, according to the School Administrator Guidance to Police Free Response. There’s a nonemergency line administrators can call to dispose of firearms or illegal drugs, when there’s suspicion of a crime, or during lockdowns. For mental health crises, administrators also have different people to reach out to depending on the situation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Students can still be disciplined, including suspended, but that’s rarely the first option, Karigaca said. Most of the time, interventions take place.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s offering a conduit of other opportunities, such as a restorative session, once both parties are in a place to have a restorative session,” Karigaca said. “Sometimes it’s going to take a walk or going to a different office; sometimes it’s calling parents or connecting with a community resource.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>District police-free guidelines give a variety of reasons when calling 911 is appropriate: active shooters, fire, medical emergencies, a person with a gun or explosive, bomb threats, serious injuries, hostage situations, abduction or kidnapping, violent crimes, death at a school site, emergency evacuations, or any situation posing danger to health or safety.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Students can be arrested for some of these incidents, Karigaca said, but usually, students aren’t arrested as a result of staff calling 911. There are about four to five arrests every school year, and it’s typically because police are arresting students for something they did outside of school, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The district partners with organizations for alternative support, but sometimes they can’t immediately respond, Karigaca said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When we call CPS (Child Protective Services) or any other mental health crisis response folks, a lot of times their staff is also under-resourced, and they aren’t able to respond,” Karigaca said. “Even they will tell us, ‘Call law enforcement.’”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>New titles for security guards\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>As Eddie Franklin walked down the hallway of Bret Harte Middle School, it was as if every student knew who he was. 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