Imagine this: a large, diverse California city with a historically troubled police department, with poor police/citizen relations, a history of racial profiling, documented police corruption and citizen abuse, together with…
Earlier this month, we started reviewing the last two years’ monitor reports and assessing the areas where the City has repeatedly been unable to comply. We blogged about these compliance…
Last week, we provided a birds’-eye view of the last five quarterly monitors’ reports on the City’s compliance with the NSA, the consent judgment agreed to by plaintiff’s and the…
MOBN! members who follow Oakland city news in the media are aware by now that after nine years of Federal Court supervision, the City of Oakland and the Oakland Police…
In our last post, we talked about David Kennedy’s violence reduction strategy, sometimes known as the “Ceasefire” program. Guess what? We actually started a Kennedy-inspired violence-reduction program here in Oakland.…
For the last several weeks, much of the political talk in Oakland has centered around Occupy Oakland, the encampment, responses by the mayor, police and city council, and whether the…
In our first post on this subject, we provided some of the remarkable crime reduction figures from Professor Franklin Zimring’s study of New York City. Today, we will review some…
No one who watched the eviction of demonstrators from Frank Ogawa Plaza can feel good about the way this situation was handled. Nor can anyone fail to be stunned and…
Nearly everyone in Oakland has opinions about crime and how to reduce it. Often public discussions in Oakland about these subjects devolve into an ideological conflict. Some think more police…
There is so much going on in Oakland right now, and so many opportunities to Make Oakland Better Now! First, the ballot measures: Ballots are on their way to your…
