http://www.orpn.org/staffing.htm

http://www.eastbayexpress.com/ebx/arrests-are-down-and-crime-is-up/Content?oid=1092906

http://www.orpn.org/MeasureY.htm

http://www.orpn.org/MeasureI_swindle1.htm

I am pretty sure that the OEA’s position on gang injunctions qualifies at the very least as a vote of no confidence in police enforcement policies. The police were backed into this position by:
1. The reduction in officers by city hall(even though people were taxed specifically to keep the number of officers above a certain number).
2. The hug a thug policies of city hall.
3. The unwritten “don’t snitch” rule of the streets.

http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2011/02/13/18671930.php?show_comments=1

http://www.orpn.org/

To the community at Life Academy-you are in my thoughts and prayers. Continue to be resilient and dedicated…and continue to remember those that you have lost.

Sending lots of love your way.

It is well known that the OEA went outside its area of expertise and has sided against solutions that OPD Chiefs and the OPOA alike have supported.

OPD does practice community policing as it is mandated by law that they have PSO’s (who in turn must go to communty meetings). And if the remaining patrol officers must run from 911 call to 911 call (instead of performing community meetings) it is because they are so understaffed and have so much paperwork to fill out.

Same with investigations: there are more Officers in Internal Affairs than investigating murders or any other crime against the citizens of Oakland. This has a direct impact on the clearance rate of Part 1 crimes: Oakland has less investigators and less Officers than just about any major city, and is both more violent, solves less of its crimes and is less of a deterrent that PD’s in other cities.

Regarding the OPD Officer who you and Judge Henderson say “went rogue”, who were the victims you mention? And how did the one officer’s actions “mean a lack of trust between police and (the non-criminal elements of the) community which damages policing efforts city-wide.”?

As if to prove my point you are blaming OPD, not the criminals. More precisely you are blaming one Officer for causing a lack of trust across the entire city. Doesn’t that seem just a little broad to you?

Some very questionable claims there. When did OEA say anything about there fellow union members in OPD? Please show some evidence.

Similarly, please show evidence that OPD staffing is linked to clearance rate. Evidence linking police staffing and true crime and consequence rates are notoriously inconclusive, despite “common sense” claims.

OPD continues to resist modern, reformed policing, which is community policing, relying instead on (tardy) arrival at 911 scenes to interview a hostile community that doesn’t trust it.

When an OPD officer goes rogue and is not investigated (see the latest memo from Judge Thelton Henderson), the repercussions go far beyond the specific victims — they mean a lack of trust between police and (the non-criminal elements of the) community which damages policing efforts city-wide.

Remember in Los Angeles the Narco Gangs (Which are most definitely not black – they’re Mexican) have been ethnically cleansing housing tracts and clearing out the Blacks. Any blacks found in those areas are subject to attack. It’s easier to impose gang discipline when you don’t have outsiders on your turf. But you can bet the white areas are getting services – Police are appreciated there. It’s an insidious process but there you have it.

It is the duty of the municipality to maintain law and order in it’s territory regardless of how they raise the money. They can sell the parks, close the libraries, do whatever it takes. That will not happen in Detroit, in Oakland, & in Black Los Angeles. Appearances are more important than reality and besides, the urban blacks never did appreciate police services, so now they don’t have it and can be happier.

So we have these killings. Believe me they will increase. And no, it’s not “senseless” when someone is killed for being in the wrong neighborhood. It’s gang discipline. It’s discipline the students don’t learn to deal with at school where they are taught they can have life their way.

Decades ago a city police department would get a list every day of the warrants issued by the local court and a warrant service team would go house to house that evening trying so serve the warrants and arrest the defendants. They’d make forcible entry and search/ransack the place to find Tyrone/Paco/Joe. That’s all gone now.

Also decades ago the city police department would get a list of the local parolees/probationers and would periodically go house to house searching – forcible entry if required. They’d take the guns, stolen TVs, Dope, under aged girlfriends and other contraband away and note other criminals found present and arrest Parolee for violating their terms or parole/probation.

City police would do this, not waiting for parole or probation officer to leave their offices and come out. These efforts gave a margin of safety to the towns.

It’s all gone now. I think the police were made unwelcome – and budgets are cut. So they don’t do the service anymore. Detectives are being eliminated also so murders without a suspect in X hours are not worked much either.

So our criminal class are now ensconced throughout the town, arming themselves, loaded on dope, communicating on MySpace and by cellphones, and running riot. You will see a LOT of black and brown teens killed from now on. It’s survival of the fittest and the schools don’t teach these lessons.

But the Parks and Libraries are still open.

And the state legislature is flushing the prisons into the CA cities under the “realignment” scheme – to “save money”.

Brave New World.

If he was not the last OHigh student who was killed he was almost…

It was around the same time an OHigh Pacific Islander student shot a fellow Asian American young woman at a park in Alameda.

It was around the same time a young African American middle school age student answered a knock at the (boarding house) door and was shot and killed by somebody who wanted to retaliate against an offense and knocked at the wrong door. The young man died in his grandfather’s arms.

Since then have died the young man near Castlemont who was holding his baby nephew as his family got in the car. The young man who was going to Oakland International HS, had recently left a gang and was shot in retaliation on MacArthur off 13th Ave. in the back of the taco restaurant. Around the corner on 13th Ave. a half block from Bella Vista Elementary a drive by shot four young men one of whom died. He grew up there but happened to live across the street from a drug house (the infamous Blue House in Bella Vista)…

Two young fathers killed (one during the beginning of this timeline, the other towards the more recent present), and three babies more recently.

And yet the OEA, SEIU and other city unions will accuse OPD and the OUSD PD of being the biggest threat to the citizens of Oakland. And blame them for arresting, or even seeking, the murderers. While OPD is so understaffed it can’t get beyond a 30% clearance rate on these. Or find the killers who are responsible for a majority of the murders of our black and brown brethren.

I am thankful for the work of the Khadafi Foundation. And I look forward to the day when their victims’ family services are needed no longer…

Knowledge is power – especially when it comes to deciding future actions. There are reasons for each one of these deaths. It’s normal to refuse to stare these reasons down. The students will wear better when this problem of violent crime mortality is faced head on.

So what are the common factors and risk factors in these cases? Is it time of day? Is it the gender of the dead? The ages? Clothing, race, hobbies, sites, victim background? What is it?

We’ve had these stories before. Each time I take the position that these are never just random fatalities (even if the only common theme is being on the street in Oakland). There is a reason why little old ladies are not dying this way, but black and brown boys are – at a minimum. Other readers say we should just mourn and never talk of RISK FACTORS.

Life is a game with odds and statistics. I believe our public school students will wear better if they are routinely schooled in risk factors and odds of those things that can hurt them. Yes, you can get hit by lightning. But car wrecks are more likely. The kids I see seem to have been taught that all bad results are a matter of fate and God. That is not true.

Ken and Barbie know better – even if they do like to ski.