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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>“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>On Monday, the Oakland Unified School District will welcome back third through sixth graders at select schools. But as kids prepare a gradual return to in-person learning, some parents are still feeling hesitant about ending distance learning altogether.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ryan Austin, artist educator and Oakland resident, said she's seen the wide range of effects that distance learning can have on kids, in part based on the kind of support systems they have at home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Austin’s sister, Arayna, is an OUSD sixth grader. She attends all her classes through Zoom and does her best to keep up with schoolwork. But Austin said it’s difficult for her to engage with the material and her classmates.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“She’s not very present,” Austin said. “I’m witnessing a dearth of her education experience.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Austin's 6-year-old son, Onyx, who attends a private school in the city, has been thriving during his remote classes. That's in part because Austin and her husband, Michael, work from home, she said, and they’ve been able to spend a lot of time together with Onyx to work with him to understand what his learning styles and interests are.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11869967\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11869967\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/RS48640_030_Oakland_AustinFamily_04142021-qut.jpg\" alt=\"Ryan Austin helps her son Onyx with school through Zoom at their home in Oakland on April 14, 2021.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/RS48640_030_Oakland_AustinFamily_04142021-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/RS48640_030_Oakland_AustinFamily_04142021-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/RS48640_030_Oakland_AustinFamily_04142021-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/RS48640_030_Oakland_AustinFamily_04142021-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/RS48640_030_Oakland_AustinFamily_04142021-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ryan Austin helps her son Onyx with school through Zoom at their home in Oakland on April 14, 2021. Austin has expressed concern that the reopening debate has used the narratives of Black and brown parents without actively engaging these families and their needs. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge./KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“We’ve hit our stride. He’s learned the expectations about how his day goes, he’s fallen into a rhythm,” Austin said. When she is able to, she sometimes audits Onyx’s classes to learn how her son is adjusting to distance learning and jots down what he needs extra help with.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Staying at home has also helped boost Onyx’s health. When he entered kindergarten last school year, he had to miss 11 days of school after coming down with a heavy cold. This especially worried his parents because Onyx has serious allergies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This school year, Onyx has not missed a single day of school.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“As a family, we’ve maintained that it’s best for him to keep learning here at home,” Austin said. “We just want to make sure that there are better safety protocols before we put him back into a space where we know he will be exposed to all kinds of illnesses, namely COVID-19.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Despite the fact that Onyx is allowed to return to in-person classes, Austin said she's keeping him home for now.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Why? Because Austin and her husband can be at home throughout the day to provide him support.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re aware that we have a privilege that we’re able to be here with him, that other people don’t have,” Austin pointed out, “so I wouldn’t dare to tell other folks to not take their kids to school.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Other parents she knows are front-line workers who don’t have the option to stay home with their kids. Having schools reopen allowed them to drop off their kids and head to work knowing that they won’t be alone in the house.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As districts across California have grappled with difficult conversations around reopening, Austin said she's been troubled by a certain aspect of the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11858457/as-battle-over-reopening-san-francisco-schools-turns-ugly-equity-emerges-as-fault-line\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">school reopening conversation\u003c/a>: Organizations and advocates — both for and against reopening the Bay Area’s schools — have both cited the needs and experiences of Black and brown parents to support their viewpoints.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Going back to school, the narrative that is out there for Black and brown folks doesn’t necessarily represent everybody,” she said. “We’re not a monolith.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Austin feels that those pushing to delay or speed reopening should be talking less \u003cem>about\u003c/em> Black and brown parents, and should be spending more time talking \u003cem>with\u003c/em> them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11869981\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11869981 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/RS48625_015_Oakland_AustinFamily_04142021-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/RS48625_015_Oakland_AustinFamily_04142021-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/RS48625_015_Oakland_AustinFamily_04142021-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/RS48625_015_Oakland_AustinFamily_04142021-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/RS48625_015_Oakland_AustinFamily_04142021-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/RS48625_015_Oakland_AustinFamily_04142021-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Austin's husband, Michael, and their son Onyx at their home in Oakland on April 14, 2021. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch3>For Parents of Color, Mixed Data and Mixed Experiences\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>In March, OUSD \u003ca href=\"https://dashboards.ousd.org/views/MSPElementary/TK-5PreferencebyGroup?%3Aembed=y\">released the results\u003c/a> of the form it sent out to parents of kids in transitional kindergarten through fifth grade. The choice the district offered parents was simple: a return in-person, at least part-time, or remaining in distance learning for the remainder of the school year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Parents of white students are the group with the highest preference for in-person learning at 76%, while 21% chose distance learning.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But results are more mixed among Black and Latino families.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Of the Black parents surveyed, 52% said they favored in-person learning, while 36% chose to continue distance learning. With Latino students, the margin is even smaller: 52% of parents selected in-person and 48% went with distance learning.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Among parents of Native American students, both options tied at 49%, while slightly more than a majority, 52%, of Asian families preferred to continue distance learning.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11869970\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 835px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11869970\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/OUSD-form-results.jpg\" alt=\"A screen grab of the OUSD dashboard tracking the results of the TK-5 Mandatory Student Preference form where parents could decide whether their child would return to in-person classes or continue distance learning.\" width=\"835\" height=\"721\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/OUSD-form-results.jpg 835w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/OUSD-form-results-800x691.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/OUSD-form-results-160x138.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 835px) 100vw, 835px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A screen grab of the OUSD dashboard tracking the results of the TK-5 Mandatory Student Preference form where parents could decide whether their child would return to in-person classes or continue distance learning.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>While the survey shows a majority of white families are in support of returning to in-person learning, the situation isn't as clear cut for families of color. And the small margins between the numbers suggest that race is not the best indicator of what those families might do in regards to school reopening.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fruitvale resident Antonio Escobar is the parent of two kids. He said he felt relief when he heard schools were reopening.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Having his first grader and pre-kindergarten student home all the time has been extremely difficult for him and his wife. Because they both have jobs outside the house, they’ve had to coordinate a system during the pandemic so that one parent is always home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When the kids are in the house, they just want to play. If they go into class, they don’t learn much because they are so distracted,” he said in Spanish.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If the kids need help with their classes, Escobar is not always sure how to help them. His biggest concern is that they’re not learning what they need to, and his family doesn’t have the time or the resources to provide extra academic support.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s going to be so much better as the kids go back to school because there they can actually focus and do their schoolwork,” he explained.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On the other hand, Claudia Guzmán, also a Fruitvale resident, decided her first grader, Alexis, would continue distance learning.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When they go in, they will need to have the mask on the whole day, wash their hands every so often and keep social distance. So I think it will be difficult for him to keep his facemask on all day and just take it off to eat,” Guzmán said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She’s a stay-at-home mom which, as she points out, allows her to assist Alexis with any bumps in the road, like bad Wi-Fi or a new lesson. “So being at home seems better to me even though I know he's not concentrating as much as he should be,” Claudia adds. [ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003cstrong>Unpacking 'School Hesitancy' \u003c/strong>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>With many parents expressing feelings of anxiety, or saying they're uncomfortable sending their kids back to school after over a year at home, some researchers have \u003ca href=\"https://www.crpe.org/thelens/whats-behind-racial-divide-school-reopening\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">started to use the term “school hesitancy”\u003c/a> to describe the discomfort that families may have about the return to in-person learning. The term draws its inspiration from “vaccine hesitancy” — the reluctance someone may feel about getting vaccinated.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the term \"vaccine hesitancy\" has also gotten some pushback from public health experts for not representing the full picture.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I don't use that terminology. People want information about the vaccine. And I think that's a perfectly reasonable thing to ask for before you say, ‘I’m going to get a vaccine,’ ” said \u003ca href=\"https://cancer.ucsf.edu/people/rhoads.kim\">Dr. Kim Rhoads\u003c/a>, an epidemiologist and biostatistician at UCSF who \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11852147/ucsf-doctor-challenges-reports-of-high-covid-rates-in-black-community\">helped start Umoja\u003c/a>, a coalition of community groups helping get Black residents in Oakland vaccinated and tested for COVID-19. [aside tag=\"school-reopening\" label=\"more coverage\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This information, Rhoads affirms, should be “from people that they know and trust.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And other experts say the same goes for \"school hesitancy.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://med.stanford.edu/profiles/yvonne-maldonado\">Dr. Yvonne Maldonado\u003c/a> is a professor of pediatrics and epidemiology at Stanford. She’s been a part of vaccination efforts in East Palo Alto and East San Jose and has found that many parents of color are just looking for a bit more information and assurance on how health guidelines will be carried out in schools.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What we’re hearing is that [parents] want their kids to go back. A lot of them have to work and they don’t like leaving their kids alone at home and there’s nobody that can come into the house even if they could afford it,” Maldonado said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She argues that the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11865058/childrens-mental-health-still-big-concern-as-schools-begin-reopening\">growing number of cases of depression and dysregulation\u003c/a> among kids in distance learning is a reason to address the return to schools as a public health issue instead of a political one.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re talking about mental health issues and physical health problems,” she explained.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Maldonado also notes that low-income students and students of color could be the most affected if school authorities don’t adopt a public health model of talking to families about returning to in-person classes. This could include community members reaching out to families one-to-one to explain what precautions schools are taking to prevent infections and the possible health risks of extending distance learning.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But she stresses that it should be the school district taking on this responsibility, not necessarily parents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It’s like saying, ‘Well the parent should have told the doctor what to do.’ That’s not their job, it should be the school district,\" she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For its part, OUSD said they have employed a variety of strategies to engage families of color in the reopening process. John Sasaki, a spokesperson for OUSD, references the multiple listening sessions held through Zoom where medical staff from UCSF Benioff Children's Hospital answered questions from parents and students.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We just want to make sure that we are being a good source for this information,” Sasaki said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>OUSD reopened its doors on March 30 to pre-K through second graders in several dozen schools. To demonstrate how it had prepared to follow health protocols, the district invited the media to Garfield Elementary School — \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11866418/some-oakland-elementary-schools-to-remain-closed-next-week-as-many-teachers-choose-to-stay-home\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">one of the schools included in the reopening.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We invited our community in to see what our schools look like with all the precautions we put in place, the kinds of markings on the floor, the kind of signage we have, the kinds of air filters, the PPE [personal protective equipment] that’s on hand, the spacing of desks,” he explained.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11866508\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2016px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11866508 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/OUSD2.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2016\" height=\"1512\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/OUSD2.jpeg 2016w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/OUSD2-800x600.jpeg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/OUSD2-1020x765.jpeg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/OUSD2-160x120.jpeg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/OUSD2-1536x1152.jpeg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/OUSD2-1920x1440.jpeg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2016px) 100vw, 2016px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Bathrooms at Garfield Elementary School in preparation for students' return on March 30. \u003ccite>(Vanessa Rancano/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>But parents, like Ryan Austin, suggest a more direct approach. She’s seen how \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11852147/ucsf-doctor-challenges-reports-of-high-covid-rates-in-black-community\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">community-led vaccination efforts\u003c/a> in predominantly Black neighborhoods in Oakland have disproven any assumption that Black residents fear the vaccine, and thinks a similar strategy can address any concerns holding back parents of color from sending their children back to in-person learning.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s the same argument that they make about vaccinations, that Black and brown people just don’t want to get vaccinated, which is not true,\" Austin said. \"If you're not doing the work to reach out to people in culturally relevant ways, you're going to miss them every time.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This post includes reporting from \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/author/qkim\">Queena Kim\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/author/vrancano\">Vanessa Rancaño\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>On Monday, the Oakland Unified School District will welcome back third through sixth graders at select schools. But as kids prepare a gradual return to in-person learning, some parents are still feeling hesitant about ending distance learning altogether.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ryan Austin, artist educator and Oakland resident, said she's seen the wide range of effects that distance learning can have on kids, in part based on the kind of support systems they have at home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Austin’s sister, Arayna, is an OUSD sixth grader. She attends all her classes through Zoom and does her best to keep up with schoolwork. But Austin said it’s difficult for her to engage with the material and her classmates.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“She’s not very present,” Austin said. “I’m witnessing a dearth of her education experience.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Austin's 6-year-old son, Onyx, who attends a private school in the city, has been thriving during his remote classes. That's in part because Austin and her husband, Michael, work from home, she said, and they’ve been able to spend a lot of time together with Onyx to work with him to understand what his learning styles and interests are.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11869967\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11869967\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/RS48640_030_Oakland_AustinFamily_04142021-qut.jpg\" alt=\"Ryan Austin helps her son Onyx with school through Zoom at their home in Oakland on April 14, 2021.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/RS48640_030_Oakland_AustinFamily_04142021-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/RS48640_030_Oakland_AustinFamily_04142021-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/RS48640_030_Oakland_AustinFamily_04142021-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/RS48640_030_Oakland_AustinFamily_04142021-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/RS48640_030_Oakland_AustinFamily_04142021-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ryan Austin helps her son Onyx with school through Zoom at their home in Oakland on April 14, 2021. Austin has expressed concern that the reopening debate has used the narratives of Black and brown parents without actively engaging these families and their needs. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge./KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“We’ve hit our stride. He’s learned the expectations about how his day goes, he’s fallen into a rhythm,” Austin said. When she is able to, she sometimes audits Onyx’s classes to learn how her son is adjusting to distance learning and jots down what he needs extra help with.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Staying at home has also helped boost Onyx’s health. When he entered kindergarten last school year, he had to miss 11 days of school after coming down with a heavy cold. This especially worried his parents because Onyx has serious allergies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This school year, Onyx has not missed a single day of school.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“As a family, we’ve maintained that it’s best for him to keep learning here at home,” Austin said. “We just want to make sure that there are better safety protocols before we put him back into a space where we know he will be exposed to all kinds of illnesses, namely COVID-19.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Despite the fact that Onyx is allowed to return to in-person classes, Austin said she's keeping him home for now.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Why? Because Austin and her husband can be at home throughout the day to provide him support.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re aware that we have a privilege that we’re able to be here with him, that other people don’t have,” Austin pointed out, “so I wouldn’t dare to tell other folks to not take their kids to school.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Other parents she knows are front-line workers who don’t have the option to stay home with their kids. Having schools reopen allowed them to drop off their kids and head to work knowing that they won’t be alone in the house.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As districts across California have grappled with difficult conversations around reopening, Austin said she's been troubled by a certain aspect of the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11858457/as-battle-over-reopening-san-francisco-schools-turns-ugly-equity-emerges-as-fault-line\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">school reopening conversation\u003c/a>: Organizations and advocates — both for and against reopening the Bay Area’s schools — have both cited the needs and experiences of Black and brown parents to support their viewpoints.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Going back to school, the narrative that is out there for Black and brown folks doesn’t necessarily represent everybody,” she said. “We’re not a monolith.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Austin feels that those pushing to delay or speed reopening should be talking less \u003cem>about\u003c/em> Black and brown parents, and should be spending more time talking \u003cem>with\u003c/em> them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11869981\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11869981 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/RS48625_015_Oakland_AustinFamily_04142021-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/RS48625_015_Oakland_AustinFamily_04142021-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/RS48625_015_Oakland_AustinFamily_04142021-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/RS48625_015_Oakland_AustinFamily_04142021-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/RS48625_015_Oakland_AustinFamily_04142021-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/RS48625_015_Oakland_AustinFamily_04142021-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Austin's husband, Michael, and their son Onyx at their home in Oakland on April 14, 2021. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch3>For Parents of Color, Mixed Data and Mixed Experiences\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>In March, OUSD \u003ca href=\"https://dashboards.ousd.org/views/MSPElementary/TK-5PreferencebyGroup?%3Aembed=y\">released the results\u003c/a> of the form it sent out to parents of kids in transitional kindergarten through fifth grade. The choice the district offered parents was simple: a return in-person, at least part-time, or remaining in distance learning for the remainder of the school year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Parents of white students are the group with the highest preference for in-person learning at 76%, while 21% chose distance learning.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But results are more mixed among Black and Latino families.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Of the Black parents surveyed, 52% said they favored in-person learning, while 36% chose to continue distance learning. With Latino students, the margin is even smaller: 52% of parents selected in-person and 48% went with distance learning.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Among parents of Native American students, both options tied at 49%, while slightly more than a majority, 52%, of Asian families preferred to continue distance learning.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11869970\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 835px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11869970\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/OUSD-form-results.jpg\" alt=\"A screen grab of the OUSD dashboard tracking the results of the TK-5 Mandatory Student Preference form where parents could decide whether their child would return to in-person classes or continue distance learning.\" width=\"835\" height=\"721\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/OUSD-form-results.jpg 835w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/OUSD-form-results-800x691.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/OUSD-form-results-160x138.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 835px) 100vw, 835px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A screen grab of the OUSD dashboard tracking the results of the TK-5 Mandatory Student Preference form where parents could decide whether their child would return to in-person classes or continue distance learning.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>While the survey shows a majority of white families are in support of returning to in-person learning, the situation isn't as clear cut for families of color. And the small margins between the numbers suggest that race is not the best indicator of what those families might do in regards to school reopening.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fruitvale resident Antonio Escobar is the parent of two kids. He said he felt relief when he heard schools were reopening.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Having his first grader and pre-kindergarten student home all the time has been extremely difficult for him and his wife. Because they both have jobs outside the house, they’ve had to coordinate a system during the pandemic so that one parent is always home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When the kids are in the house, they just want to play. If they go into class, they don’t learn much because they are so distracted,” he said in Spanish.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If the kids need help with their classes, Escobar is not always sure how to help them. His biggest concern is that they’re not learning what they need to, and his family doesn’t have the time or the resources to provide extra academic support.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s going to be so much better as the kids go back to school because there they can actually focus and do their schoolwork,” he explained.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On the other hand, Claudia Guzmán, also a Fruitvale resident, decided her first grader, Alexis, would continue distance learning.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When they go in, they will need to have the mask on the whole day, wash their hands every so often and keep social distance. So I think it will be difficult for him to keep his facemask on all day and just take it off to eat,” Guzmán said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She’s a stay-at-home mom which, as she points out, allows her to assist Alexis with any bumps in the road, like bad Wi-Fi or a new lesson. “So being at home seems better to me even though I know he's not concentrating as much as he should be,” Claudia adds. \u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This information, Rhoads affirms, should be “from people that they know and trust.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And other experts say the same goes for \"school hesitancy.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://med.stanford.edu/profiles/yvonne-maldonado\">Dr. Yvonne Maldonado\u003c/a> is a professor of pediatrics and epidemiology at Stanford. She’s been a part of vaccination efforts in East Palo Alto and East San Jose and has found that many parents of color are just looking for a bit more information and assurance on how health guidelines will be carried out in schools.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What we’re hearing is that [parents] want their kids to go back. A lot of them have to work and they don’t like leaving their kids alone at home and there’s nobody that can come into the house even if they could afford it,” Maldonado said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She argues that the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11865058/childrens-mental-health-still-big-concern-as-schools-begin-reopening\">growing number of cases of depression and dysregulation\u003c/a> among kids in distance learning is a reason to address the return to schools as a public health issue instead of a political one.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re talking about mental health issues and physical health problems,” she explained.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Maldonado also notes that low-income students and students of color could be the most affected if school authorities don’t adopt a public health model of talking to families about returning to in-person classes. This could include community members reaching out to families one-to-one to explain what precautions schools are taking to prevent infections and the possible health risks of extending distance learning.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But she stresses that it should be the school district taking on this responsibility, not necessarily parents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It’s like saying, ‘Well the parent should have told the doctor what to do.’ That’s not their job, it should be the school district,\" she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For its part, OUSD said they have employed a variety of strategies to engage families of color in the reopening process. John Sasaki, a spokesperson for OUSD, references the multiple listening sessions held through Zoom where medical staff from UCSF Benioff Children's Hospital answered questions from parents and students.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We just want to make sure that we are being a good source for this information,” Sasaki said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>OUSD reopened its doors on March 30 to pre-K through second graders in several dozen schools. To demonstrate how it had prepared to follow health protocols, the district invited the media to Garfield Elementary School — \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11866418/some-oakland-elementary-schools-to-remain-closed-next-week-as-many-teachers-choose-to-stay-home\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">one of the schools included in the reopening.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We invited our community in to see what our schools look like with all the precautions we put in place, the kinds of markings on the floor, the kind of signage we have, the kinds of air filters, the PPE [personal protective equipment] that’s on hand, the spacing of desks,” he explained.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11866508\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2016px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11866508 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/OUSD2.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2016\" height=\"1512\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/OUSD2.jpeg 2016w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/OUSD2-800x600.jpeg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/OUSD2-1020x765.jpeg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/OUSD2-160x120.jpeg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/OUSD2-1536x1152.jpeg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/OUSD2-1920x1440.jpeg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2016px) 100vw, 2016px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Bathrooms at Garfield Elementary School in preparation for students' return on March 30. \u003ccite>(Vanessa Rancano/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>But parents, like Ryan Austin, suggest a more direct approach. She’s seen how \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11852147/ucsf-doctor-challenges-reports-of-high-covid-rates-in-black-community\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">community-led vaccination efforts\u003c/a> in predominantly Black neighborhoods in Oakland have disproven any assumption that Black residents fear the vaccine, and thinks a similar strategy can address any concerns holding back parents of color from sending their children back to in-person learning.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s the same argument that they make about vaccinations, that Black and brown people just don’t want to get vaccinated, which is not true,\" Austin said. \"If you're not doing the work to reach out to people in culturally relevant ways, you're going to miss them every time.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This post includes reporting from \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/author/qkim\">Queena Kim\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/author/vrancano\">Vanessa Rancaño\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>After initially asking exclusively for applicants of color, organizers of a pilot program to provide a guaranteed income to hundreds of low-income Oaklanders now say all residents who meet the program's criteria are welcome to apply, regardless of race.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"https://oaklandresilientfamilies.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Oakland Resilient Families\u003c/a> program was announced last week as the latest experiment in a nationwide movement to aid low-income families by providing direct cash payments with no strings attached.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We will enroll 600 BIPOC [Black, Indigenous, and People of Color] families in Oakland living with low-income,” said Jesús Gerena, CEO of the Family Independence Initiative, one of the nonprofit organizations running the program, at a press conference announcing the initiative. \"And [they] will receive $500 a month for 18 months.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But now, a frequently asked questions section on the program's website has been altered to omit references to BIPOC.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Under the question \"Who is this for?\", the original language read \"Black, Indigenous, and People of Color (BIPOC) families ... with low income and at least 1 child under 18... .\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The updated version says the program is \"targeted to support families with the greatest wealth disparities,\" with no mention of BIPOC, but the other requirements remaining the same.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/OakandFamilies1.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-11867931\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/OakandFamilies1-800x331.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"331\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/OakandFamilies1-800x331.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/OakandFamilies1-1020x421.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/OakandFamilies1-160x66.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/OakandFamilies1-1536x635.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/OakandFamilies1.jpg 1859w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A different section previously stated, “Any low-income BIPOC family in Oakland is eligible to apply to be randomly selected.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now, “BIPOC” has been removed from that sentence.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/OaklandFamilies2.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-11867933\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/OaklandFamilies2-800x331.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"331\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/OaklandFamilies2-800x331.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/OaklandFamilies2-1020x421.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/OaklandFamilies2-160x66.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/OaklandFamilies2-1536x635.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/OaklandFamilies2.jpg 1859w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When questioned about the changes, Rae Oglesby, vice president of membership and communications at the Family Independence Initiative, said in an email that, “The program is targeting racial groups experiencing the largest disparities. That said, it is open to all residents. We just clarified the language.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to the program website, applicants will be randomly selected \"with an intentional focus on groups with the greatest wealth disparities per the Oakland Equity Index.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The families will still be selected from two geographic pools of applicants: one pool from East Oakland, the other including residents from other parts of the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Half of the participants will be low-income, as defined by families earning below 50% of area median income. The other half will be \"very-low income families\" earning below 138% of the federal poverty level.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We have not changed the program,\" said Justin Berton, communications director for Mayor Libby Schaaf. \"We have had to clarify that while no family is prohibited from applying, this pilot is intentionally designed to serve and support BIPOC families, who evidence shows suffer the greatest and most disproportionate impacts of poverty.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The explicit focus on families of color had been hailed by supporters of the idea that unrestricted cash payments are a crucial tool to lift families out of poverty.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label=\"related coverage\" tag=\"guaranteed-income\"]Unlike other guaranteed income programs, however, organizers in Oakland asked specifically for residents of color to take part.\u003cbr>\n“I especially appreciate the explicit focus on racial justice,” said former Stockton Mayor Michael Tubbs, the founder of Mayors for a Guaranteed Income, last week. \"Because we understand that civil rights has always been about protection — not just from police brutality, but also from the brutality of poverty.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The city's Equity Indicators \u003ca href=\"https://data.oaklandca.gov/stories/s/brb2-j4ad\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">highlight the disparities\u003c/a> between white and BIPOC residents of Oakland.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For example, in 2018, white Oaklanders had the highest levels of household income among any racial and ethnic group, and the lowest percentage of residents (8.4%) living below the poverty line.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the explicit pitch to residents of color rankled some critics. 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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cem>This story has been updated.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A sculpted bust of Breonna Taylor in downtown Oakland lay in pieces Saturday, apparently vandalized just two weeks after it was first installed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The bust's sculptor, \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/leo_carson_art/\">Leo Carson\u003c/a>, told KQED that the sculpture was created to support Black lives.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"This vandalism is an act of racist aggression, and it shows why sculpture and art matters,\" he said. \"I made this sculpture to support the Black Lives Matter movement, and while I'm overcome with rage and sadness at their cowardly act, their vandalism will make her even more potent.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It is not immediately clear who, or how, the bust was broken. The Oakland Police Department told KQED they are \"aware of the incident regarding the vandalism of a bust honoring Breonna Taylor.\" A police report has been filed and the incident is under investigation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11852866\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11852866\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/IMG_5154-1-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"A report of the statue's vandalism has been filed with the Oakland Police Department and the incident is currently under investigation.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/IMG_5154-1-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/IMG_5154-1-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/IMG_5154-1-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/IMG_5154-1-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/IMG_5154-1-1832x1374.jpg 1832w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/IMG_5154-1-1376x1032.jpg 1376w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/IMG_5154-1-1044x783.jpg 1044w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/IMG_5154-1-632x474.jpg 632w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/IMG_5154-1-536x402.jpg 536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/IMG_5154-1.jpg 1900w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A report of the statue's vandalism has been filed with the Oakland Police Department and the incident is currently under investigation. \u003ccite>(Erin Baldassari/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The vandalism \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/aziaticblack/status/1342962973099233282\">was first reported by local news outlet The Oaklandside\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Protests erupted across the nation in mid-2020 in the name of George Floyd and Taylor, who both were killed by police. Oaklanders \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11839529/war-on-us-black-women-rally-in-oakland-for-breonna-taylor\">also made their voices heard\u003c/a> in anger, in pain, and often with art — from poetry and music to the bust installed on Dec. 12.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Officers shot Taylor, an emergency medical worker, multiple times after they entered her Louisville, Kentucky home using a \"no-knock\" warrant in a botched drug raid in March. The warrant used to search her home was connected to a suspect who did not live there, and no drugs were found inside.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11852867\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11852867\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/IMG_5152-1-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"As of Monday afternoon, a GoFundMe campaign to repair the statue nearly doubled its $5,000 fundraising goal.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/IMG_5152-1-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/IMG_5152-1-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/IMG_5152-1-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/IMG_5152-1-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/IMG_5152-1-1832x1374.jpg 1832w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/IMG_5152-1-1376x1032.jpg 1376w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/IMG_5152-1-1044x783.jpg 1044w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/IMG_5152-1-632x474.jpg 632w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/IMG_5152-1-536x402.jpg 536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/IMG_5152-1.jpg 1900w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">As of Monday afternoon, a GoFundMe campaign to repair the statue nearly doubled its $5,000 fundraising goal. \u003ccite>(Erin Baldassari/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In September, grand jurors brought only one indictment against an officer for the reckless use of a gun. Brett Hankison, who has since been dismissed from the force, was charged with three counts of \"wanton endangerment\" for firing into Taylor’s neighbors’ apartment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The two other officers whose bullets hit Taylor were not charged.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/FeelmoreAdult/status/1337898742515527680\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That news \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11839529/war-on-us-black-women-rally-in-oakland-for-breonna-taylor\">brought renewed action in Oakland\u003c/a>. During a rally in front of an Oakland mural honoring Taylor at 15th Street and Broadway, Cat Brooks, one of the event’s organizers and co-founder of the Anti Police-Terror Project, spoke to the crowd.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Breonna Taylor did not die in a vacuum. She died inside of a paradigm in this country where the lives of Black women and girls do not matter,” Brooks said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Carson hosted a \u003ca href=\"https://www.gofundme.com/f/rebuild-the-breonna-taylor-sculpture-in-dt-oakland?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=m_pd+share-sheet\">GoFundMe fundraiser\u003c/a> to rebuild Taylor's sculpture in bronze \"to prevent further damage.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"As an unemployed server, this isn't something I can afford to do on my own,\" Carson explained in the post.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Donations, to date, have well surpassed the $5,000 fundraising goal. Leftover funds will be donated to Taylor's family, according to Carson.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This story was updated Sunday morning at 11:19 a.m. to reflect a new comment from the Oakland Police Department, and on \u003c/em>\u003cem>Monday afternoon at 12:45 p.m. to include the GoFundMe sculpture repairs fundraiser. \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003cem>This story has been updated.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A sculpted bust of Breonna Taylor in downtown Oakland lay in pieces Saturday, apparently vandalized just two weeks after it was first installed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The bust's sculptor, \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/leo_carson_art/\">Leo Carson\u003c/a>, told KQED that the sculpture was created to support Black lives.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"This vandalism is an act of racist aggression, and it shows why sculpture and art matters,\" he said. \"I made this sculpture to support the Black Lives Matter movement, and while I'm overcome with rage and sadness at their cowardly act, their vandalism will make her even more potent.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It is not immediately clear who, or how, the bust was broken. The Oakland Police Department told KQED they are \"aware of the incident regarding the vandalism of a bust honoring Breonna Taylor.\" A police report has been filed and the incident is under investigation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11852866\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11852866\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/IMG_5154-1-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"A report of the statue's vandalism has been filed with the Oakland Police Department and the incident is currently under investigation.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/IMG_5154-1-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/IMG_5154-1-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/IMG_5154-1-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/IMG_5154-1-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/IMG_5154-1-1832x1374.jpg 1832w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/IMG_5154-1-1376x1032.jpg 1376w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/IMG_5154-1-1044x783.jpg 1044w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/IMG_5154-1-632x474.jpg 632w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/IMG_5154-1-536x402.jpg 536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/IMG_5154-1.jpg 1900w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A report of the statue's vandalism has been filed with the Oakland Police Department and the incident is currently under investigation. \u003ccite>(Erin Baldassari/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The vandalism \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/aziaticblack/status/1342962973099233282\">was first reported by local news outlet The Oaklandside\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Protests erupted across the nation in mid-2020 in the name of George Floyd and Taylor, who both were killed by police. Oaklanders \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11839529/war-on-us-black-women-rally-in-oakland-for-breonna-taylor\">also made their voices heard\u003c/a> in anger, in pain, and often with art — from poetry and music to the bust installed on Dec. 12.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Officers shot Taylor, an emergency medical worker, multiple times after they entered her Louisville, Kentucky home using a \"no-knock\" warrant in a botched drug raid in March. The warrant used to search her home was connected to a suspect who did not live there, and no drugs were found inside.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11852867\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11852867\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/IMG_5152-1-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"As of Monday afternoon, a GoFundMe campaign to repair the statue nearly doubled its $5,000 fundraising goal.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/IMG_5152-1-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/IMG_5152-1-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/IMG_5152-1-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/IMG_5152-1-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/IMG_5152-1-1832x1374.jpg 1832w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/IMG_5152-1-1376x1032.jpg 1376w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/IMG_5152-1-1044x783.jpg 1044w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/IMG_5152-1-632x474.jpg 632w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/IMG_5152-1-536x402.jpg 536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/IMG_5152-1.jpg 1900w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">As of Monday afternoon, a GoFundMe campaign to repair the statue nearly doubled its $5,000 fundraising goal. \u003ccite>(Erin Baldassari/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In September, grand jurors brought only one indictment against an officer for the reckless use of a gun. Brett Hankison, who has since been dismissed from the force, was charged with three counts of \"wanton endangerment\" for firing into Taylor’s neighbors’ apartment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The two other officers whose bullets hit Taylor were not charged.\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>Before the pandemic, dozens of shoppers streamed through 9th and Webster, a busy intersection in Oakland. But on a recent afternoon, Carl Chan marveled at the sight of nearly empty streets. Only two pedestrians lingered on a corner, waiting for the green light to cross.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Oh my God, this is Chinatown?” said Chan, president of the \u003ca href=\"https://www.oaklandchinatownchamber.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Oakland Chinatown Chamber of Commerce\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Restaurants in the neighborhood were some of the first hit by the pandemic, Chan said. As early as January, Bay Area residents with Asian roots were getting word of the deadly toll of COVID-19 in China and canceled large banquets booked months in advance. Instead of shopping and gathering to celebrate the Chinese New Year, many opted to stay home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“So even before the shelter in place, we had quite a few businesses already closed,” Chan said, standing near shuttered shops and ‘For Rent’ signs. “The impact has been huge.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11852247\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11852247\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/RS46444_007_KQED_Oakland_Chinatown_12182020-qut.jpg\" alt='\"\"' width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/RS46444_007_KQED_Oakland_Chinatown_12182020-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/RS46444_007_KQED_Oakland_Chinatown_12182020-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/RS46444_007_KQED_Oakland_Chinatown_12182020-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/RS46444_007_KQED_Oakland_Chinatown_12182020-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/RS46444_007_KQED_Oakland_Chinatown_12182020-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Carl Chan, president of Chinatown Chamber of Commerce, poses for a portrait in Oakland's Chinatown on Dec. 18, 2020. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>While exact figures are hard to come by, Chan says he believes more than 30% of businesses in the neighborhood have closed their doors temporarily, or for good. According to the \u003ca href=\"https://eastbayeda.org/covid-business-impacts/\">East Bay Economic Development Alliance\u003c/a>, close to 900 businesses in Oakland discontinued operations in the first six months of shelter-in-place restrictions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Businesses in Chinatown have also had to contend with a drop in customers due to \u003ca href=\"https://www.hrw.org/news/2020/05/12/covid-19-fueling-anti-asian-racism-and-xenophobia-worldwide\">anti-Asian sentiment\u003c/a> mistakenly connecting COVID-19 with all Asian people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s so hurtful,” said Chan, who has frequented the neighborhood since moving to the U.S. from Hong Kong as a teenager, and often waves to acquaintances passing by on the street. “I'm seeing so many people not only losing the business they worked so hard to build, but also, I'm seeing so many people are losing their jobs.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For most of the pandemic, county public health orders have required Anna Bui to close Diva Nails, the nail salon she’s owned in Chinatown for 18 years. Still, she has been on the hook for $2,250 per month in commercial rent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11852253\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11852253\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/RS46449_012_KQED_Oakland_Chinatown_12182020-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/RS46449_012_KQED_Oakland_Chinatown_12182020-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/RS46449_012_KQED_Oakland_Chinatown_12182020-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/RS46449_012_KQED_Oakland_Chinatown_12182020-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/RS46449_012_KQED_Oakland_Chinatown_12182020-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/RS46449_012_KQED_Oakland_Chinatown_12182020-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Diva Nails in Oakland on Dec. 18, 2020. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>After April, Bui tried negotiating with the landlord to reduce her payments, but he he faced a mortgage bill of his own for the property, and threatened to sue her. “I’m very stressed, and often up all night worrying about what I’m going to do with my salon and my family,” said Bui, 46.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Finally, in November, Bui’s landlord agreed to offer a discount on her burgeoning debt with him, but she still owes $11,000 in back rent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Other landlords in the neighborhood said they are working with tenants who are missing rent payments. At Pacific Renaissance Plaza, which includes 90,000 square feet of commercial space in the heart of Chinatown, several tenants have paid partial or no rent since April and May, according to Rick da Silva, principal with Loh Realty and Wellington Property, which owns and manages the property.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When this started, we actually told our tenants here and in other locations, ‘Pay what you can. We will work all of this out,' ” da Silva said. “We view our tenants as our partners. I mean, we would not want to push anybody out.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11852269\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11852269\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/RS46447_010_KQED_Oakland_Chinatown_12182020-qut.jpg\" alt=\"A person wearing a mask takes a to-go order while standing outside a restaurant in Oakland's Chinatown\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/RS46447_010_KQED_Oakland_Chinatown_12182020-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/RS46447_010_KQED_Oakland_Chinatown_12182020-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/RS46447_010_KQED_Oakland_Chinatown_12182020-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/RS46447_010_KQED_Oakland_Chinatown_12182020-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/RS46447_010_KQED_Oakland_Chinatown_12182020-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">May Zhong, owner of Ying Kee Restaurant, takes a to-go order for local resident Caxton Fung in Oakland on Dec. 18, 2020. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>But not all landlords are as understanding, and demand for help to renegotiate commercial lease terms has shot up, said Tobias Damm-Luhr with the San Francisco-based \u003ca href=\"https://lawyerscommittee.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights\u003c/a>. The organization provides free legal counseling to people of color and \u003ca href=\"https://lccrsf.org/legal-services-for-oakland-small-businesses/\">webinars on lease negotiation\u003c/a> in Vietnamese, Cantonese and other languages.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The number one tip that we give people as part of these webinars is to remember that you have the upper hand as a small business tenant in these negotiations, because the market for commercial space right now is a renter's market,” Damm-Luhr said. [ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Immigrant business owners in particular may struggle with language issues to communicate effectively with their landlords and understand the contents of their lease agreements in English, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The city of Oakland recently allocated \u003ca href=\"https://www.oaklandca.gov/news/2020/city-lawyers-committee-for-civil-rights-of-the-sf-bay-area-to-provide-webinars-consultations-to-assist-oakland-small-businesses-with-lease-negotiations\">$150,000\u003c/a> to the civil rights nonprofit to help local businesses impacted by COVID-19 negotiate their leases, and try to avoid eviction or closure. But local business tenants must sign up for the assistance before Dec. 21, Damm-Luhr said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11851757\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11851757\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/RS46431_IMG_3075-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1440\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/RS46431_IMG_3075-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/RS46431_IMG_3075-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/RS46431_IMG_3075-qut-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/RS46431_IMG_3075-qut-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/RS46431_IMG_3075-qut-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/RS46431_IMG_3075-qut-1832x1374.jpg 1832w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/RS46431_IMG_3075-qut-1376x1032.jpg 1376w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/RS46431_IMG_3075-qut-1044x783.jpg 1044w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/RS46431_IMG_3075-qut-632x474.jpg 632w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/RS46431_IMG_3075-qut-536x402.jpg 536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A jewelry store is shuttered in Oakland's Chinatown on Dec. 15, 2020. The local chamber of commerce said the business may be closed permanently. \u003ccite>(Farida Jhabvala Romero/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Oakland’s current \u003ca href=\"https://www.oaklandca.gov/resources/oaklands-moratorium-on-residential-and-commercial-evictions\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">moratorium\u003c/a> on commercial and residential evictions ends on March 31. But after, the city’s business tenants will be responsible for all the back rent they owe. Damm-Luhr worries that without substantial federal aid for small businesses, as well as more resources for legal assistance, there could be a huge wave of evictions in 2021.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Displacement of small business tenants has been an issue way before the pandemic even started,” he said, pointing to high rents. “But it was just exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic, especially in low-income communities and communities of color in the Bay Area.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Before the pandemic, dozens of shoppers streamed through 9th and Webster, a busy intersection in Oakland. But on a recent afternoon, Carl Chan marveled at the sight of nearly empty streets. Only two pedestrians lingered on a corner, waiting for the green light to cross.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Oh my God, this is Chinatown?” said Chan, president of the \u003ca href=\"https://www.oaklandchinatownchamber.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Oakland Chinatown Chamber of Commerce\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Restaurants in the neighborhood were some of the first hit by the pandemic, Chan said. As early as January, Bay Area residents with Asian roots were getting word of the deadly toll of COVID-19 in China and canceled large banquets booked months in advance. Instead of shopping and gathering to celebrate the Chinese New Year, many opted to stay home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“So even before the shelter in place, we had quite a few businesses already closed,” Chan said, standing near shuttered shops and ‘For Rent’ signs. “The impact has been huge.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11852247\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11852247\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/RS46444_007_KQED_Oakland_Chinatown_12182020-qut.jpg\" alt='\"\"' width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/RS46444_007_KQED_Oakland_Chinatown_12182020-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/RS46444_007_KQED_Oakland_Chinatown_12182020-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/RS46444_007_KQED_Oakland_Chinatown_12182020-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/RS46444_007_KQED_Oakland_Chinatown_12182020-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/RS46444_007_KQED_Oakland_Chinatown_12182020-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Carl Chan, president of Chinatown Chamber of Commerce, poses for a portrait in Oakland's Chinatown on Dec. 18, 2020. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>While exact figures are hard to come by, Chan says he believes more than 30% of businesses in the neighborhood have closed their doors temporarily, or for good. According to the \u003ca href=\"https://eastbayeda.org/covid-business-impacts/\">East Bay Economic Development Alliance\u003c/a>, close to 900 businesses in Oakland discontinued operations in the first six months of shelter-in-place restrictions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Businesses in Chinatown have also had to contend with a drop in customers due to \u003ca href=\"https://www.hrw.org/news/2020/05/12/covid-19-fueling-anti-asian-racism-and-xenophobia-worldwide\">anti-Asian sentiment\u003c/a> mistakenly connecting COVID-19 with all Asian people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s so hurtful,” said Chan, who has frequented the neighborhood since moving to the U.S. from Hong Kong as a teenager, and often waves to acquaintances passing by on the street. “I'm seeing so many people not only losing the business they worked so hard to build, but also, I'm seeing so many people are losing their jobs.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For most of the pandemic, county public health orders have required Anna Bui to close Diva Nails, the nail salon she’s owned in Chinatown for 18 years. Still, she has been on the hook for $2,250 per month in commercial rent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11852253\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11852253\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/RS46449_012_KQED_Oakland_Chinatown_12182020-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/RS46449_012_KQED_Oakland_Chinatown_12182020-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/RS46449_012_KQED_Oakland_Chinatown_12182020-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/RS46449_012_KQED_Oakland_Chinatown_12182020-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/RS46449_012_KQED_Oakland_Chinatown_12182020-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/RS46449_012_KQED_Oakland_Chinatown_12182020-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Diva Nails in Oakland on Dec. 18, 2020. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>After April, Bui tried negotiating with the landlord to reduce her payments, but he he faced a mortgage bill of his own for the property, and threatened to sue her. “I’m very stressed, and often up all night worrying about what I’m going to do with my salon and my family,” said Bui, 46.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Finally, in November, Bui’s landlord agreed to offer a discount on her burgeoning debt with him, but she still owes $11,000 in back rent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Other landlords in the neighborhood said they are working with tenants who are missing rent payments. At Pacific Renaissance Plaza, which includes 90,000 square feet of commercial space in the heart of Chinatown, several tenants have paid partial or no rent since April and May, according to Rick da Silva, principal with Loh Realty and Wellington Property, which owns and manages the property.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When this started, we actually told our tenants here and in other locations, ‘Pay what you can. We will work all of this out,' ” da Silva said. “We view our tenants as our partners. I mean, we would not want to push anybody out.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11852269\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11852269\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/RS46447_010_KQED_Oakland_Chinatown_12182020-qut.jpg\" alt=\"A person wearing a mask takes a to-go order while standing outside a restaurant in Oakland's Chinatown\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/RS46447_010_KQED_Oakland_Chinatown_12182020-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/RS46447_010_KQED_Oakland_Chinatown_12182020-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/RS46447_010_KQED_Oakland_Chinatown_12182020-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/RS46447_010_KQED_Oakland_Chinatown_12182020-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/RS46447_010_KQED_Oakland_Chinatown_12182020-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">May Zhong, owner of Ying Kee Restaurant, takes a to-go order for local resident Caxton Fung in Oakland on Dec. 18, 2020. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>But not all landlords are as understanding, and demand for help to renegotiate commercial lease terms has shot up, said Tobias Damm-Luhr with the San Francisco-based \u003ca href=\"https://lawyerscommittee.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights\u003c/a>. The organization provides free legal counseling to people of color and \u003ca href=\"https://lccrsf.org/legal-services-for-oakland-small-businesses/\">webinars on lease negotiation\u003c/a> in Vietnamese, Cantonese and other languages.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The number one tip that we give people as part of these webinars is to remember that you have the upper hand as a small business tenant in these negotiations, because the market for commercial space right now is a renter's market,” Damm-Luhr said. \u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Immigrant business owners in particular may struggle with language issues to communicate effectively with their landlords and understand the contents of their lease agreements in English, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The city of Oakland recently allocated \u003ca href=\"https://www.oaklandca.gov/news/2020/city-lawyers-committee-for-civil-rights-of-the-sf-bay-area-to-provide-webinars-consultations-to-assist-oakland-small-businesses-with-lease-negotiations\">$150,000\u003c/a> to the civil rights nonprofit to help local businesses impacted by COVID-19 negotiate their leases, and try to avoid eviction or closure. But local business tenants must sign up for the assistance before Dec. 21, Damm-Luhr said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11851757\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11851757\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/RS46431_IMG_3075-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1440\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/RS46431_IMG_3075-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/RS46431_IMG_3075-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/RS46431_IMG_3075-qut-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/RS46431_IMG_3075-qut-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/RS46431_IMG_3075-qut-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/RS46431_IMG_3075-qut-1832x1374.jpg 1832w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/RS46431_IMG_3075-qut-1376x1032.jpg 1376w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/RS46431_IMG_3075-qut-1044x783.jpg 1044w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/RS46431_IMG_3075-qut-632x474.jpg 632w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/RS46431_IMG_3075-qut-536x402.jpg 536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A jewelry store is shuttered in Oakland's Chinatown on Dec. 15, 2020. The local chamber of commerce said the business may be closed permanently. \u003ccite>(Farida Jhabvala Romero/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Oakland’s current \u003ca href=\"https://www.oaklandca.gov/resources/oaklands-moratorium-on-residential-and-commercial-evictions\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">moratorium\u003c/a> on commercial and residential evictions ends on March 31. But after, the city’s business tenants will be responsible for all the back rent they owe. Damm-Luhr worries that without substantial federal aid for small businesses, as well as more resources for legal assistance, there could be a huge wave of evictions in 2021.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Displacement of small business tenants has been an issue way before the pandemic even started,” he said, pointing to high rents. “But it was just exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic, especially in low-income communities and communities of color in the Bay Area.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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