Make Oakland Better Now! comments on the Police Commission Enabling Ordinances introduced by Councilmembers Dan Kalb and Noel Gallo as well as the substitute ordinance proposed by The Coalition on Police Accountability.
Mayor Libby Schaaf announced that Anne Kirkpatrick will be the new Oakland Police Department and Venus D. Johnson as Director of Public Safety.
Why Make Oakland Better Now! supports the Oakland police commission measure on November’s ballot.
Oakland City Council will debate a ballot measure creating a citizen police commission.
Oakland City Council's Public Safety Committee will meet on Tuesday, June 14 at 4:00 p.m. to consider a proposal for police oversight by Council Members Dan Kalb and Noel Gallo. Here's what you need to know.
At Mayor Libby Schaff's Safe Oakland series, Yale Law professor Tracey Meares, Assistant Police Chief Dr. Paul Figueroa, and Rev. Damita Davis-Howard, discuss fair and just policing.
Make Oakland Better Now's analysis of the Oakland Police Department’s new “Strategic Plan” including its goal of reducing homicide, robbery, aggravated assault rates by 30% in three years.
Oakland's Public Safety Committee will consider new gun control measures that will ban the possession of large capacity magazines and require the safe storage of firearms.
Last week, the Public Safety Committee met to discuss the Oakland Police Department's $1 million spending plan to reduce gun violence and trafficking over the next two years. (Watch the…
We strongly support the efforts by Mayor Schaaf to accommodate and facilitate the exercise of free speech while at the same time protecting persons and property from attack by vandals…
