Oakland CA Police defunded 18 million, City council reimagining police calls for service.

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Oakland Police Chief Speaks Out After City Council Defunds Police By $18.4 Million​



Oakland Police Chief Speaks Out After City Council Defunds Police By $18.4 Million​

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Holly Matkin22 hours ago
Oakland, CA – The Oakland City Council has voted to defund the city’s police force by an additional $18.4 million as homicide rates continued to skyrocket.
The council voted 7-2 in favor of the massive budget cut last week, which was expected to result in the loss of as many as 50 sworn officer positions, OAN reported.

Oakland’s homicide rate surged more than 314 percent after the city voted to defund the police previously, according to OAN.
Crime has continued to spiral out of control ever since, Oakland Police Chief LeRonne Armstrong said.

He also took issue with a “city leader’s” comment about the surging crime rate being “a bump in the road – a speed bump – [and] that we would go through a period would there would be speed bumps and there would be challenges and things might not go right,” he said.

“Well for me, those ‘speed bumps’ are 65 lives so far this year,” the chief told reporters. “Whether its shootings, robberies, carjackings, sexual assaults, all of these crimes are not speed bumps. These are people.”

Meanwhile, Oakland City Council President Nikki Fortunato Bas praised the council’s successful police defunding effort.

“I think yesterday was very historic,” Fortunato Bas told KGO. “We’ll be standing up a program called MACRO for alternative crisis responders, to handle mental health issues. We will be having our department of transportation handle issues that police typically handle, blocked driveways, auto tows.”


The MACRO pilot project will use unarmed fire department civilian employees to respond to 911 calls deemed to be nonviolent, The Oaklandside reported.

The Department of Violence Prevention (DVP), which consists of civilian life coaches and “violence interrupters,” will see a 50 percent budget increase under the city council’s new plan, boosting its funding by another $52 million.

Hmmm, a department of violence prevention. Unarmed fire fighters used as violence interuptors.
 

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Sometimes the things going on in Commiefornia makes me think it's part of the overall plan. Defund the Police watch crime skyrocket; tax people into poverty, etc. To the point people leave and infiltrate other states with their ideology to turn them blue. Liberals like China plan years out where conservatives want to live their lives mostly for the present enjoying freedom and life as it comes
 

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oakland will be for sale shortly for bargain basement prices. buy it up when it gets cheap and then when the police come back you can make a killing on rising property values.
 

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The politicians on the left are for defunding the police until something happens at their home and then they'll whine and plead for police but it'll be too late.
 

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What are they thinking (or maybe they aren't thinking).....I'm sure glad I live here in Oklahoma and not there
It's in the overall game plan. Let crime get totally out of control. Federalize the police. Then pound everybody with an iron fist.
Total gun confiscation. Set aside the constitution in the name of law and order.
You know!! It's for the children!
 

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It's in the overall game plan. Let crime get totally out of control. Federalize the police. Then pound everybody with an iron fist.
Total gun confiscation. Set aside the constitution in the name of law and order.
You know!! It's for the children!
See above. It'll never get that far
 

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