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"content": "\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"#episode-transcript\">\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">View the full episode transcript.\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">A committee called Save Alameda For Everyone (SAFE) has filed documents for a recall campaign against progressive Alameda County District Attorney Pamela Price. KQED’s \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/FitzTheReporter\">Joe Fitzgerald Rodriguez\u003c/a> explains why this is happening — and whether DA Price could face the same fate as Chesa Boudin did in San Francisco.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"200\" scrolling=\"no\" src=\"https://playlist.megaphone.fm/?e=KQINC9916568677\" width=\"100%\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2 id=\"episode-transcript\">Episode Transcript\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">This is a computer-generated transcript. While our team has reviewed it, there may be errors.\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>And we’re back to regularly scheduled programing, folks. I’m Ericka Cruz Guevarra. And welcome back to The Bay. Local news to keep you rooted. Alameda County made history last year when voters elected a progressive district attorney named Pamela Price. Price was a civil rights lawyer who grew up in the foster care and juvenile justice system, and she promised a different approach to criminal justice.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Pamela Price: \u003c/strong>When we invest in community support for people with mental illness, when we invest in services and opportunities for young people, when we invest in our community, that’s when we’ll see crime go down.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>Now, less than a year into her term, fears about gun violence, robberies and car break ins are fueling an effort to boot race out of office and prices in a tough spot. Because while the investments she wants to make take time to trickle down into the community, there are people who want something to be done about the crimes happening right now.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Joe Fitzgerald Rodriguez: \u003c/strong>The opponents of progressive policies have very strong emotional arguments they can make by pointing to these cases where, you know, perhaps some tragedy happened and there wasn’t a as harsh a sentence as maybe a victim would prefer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>So, how bad is crime in Alameda County, really? And what does Pamela Price say she’s going to do with it? All that and more on the recall right after this.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Joe Fitzgerald Rodriguez: \u003c/strong>The recall against most delays in the state has been predicated on the idea that crime is rising and that progressive policies are contributing to rising crime.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>Joe Fitzgerald Rodriguez is a politics and government reporter for KQED.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Joe Fitzgerald Rodriguez: \u003c/strong>It’s a bit of a messy argument, though, because crime has risen and dropped in trends that we see happening across the country. Sometimes, as some of our colleagues here actually have shown, the crime rates are actually higher in places with conservative district attorneys. But there is a climate of fear around crime. And so what we’re seeing is the earliest hints of a recall, a recall that has been established as a campaign committee, which means it’s taking the legal steps to establish itself, which means it’s very early. We don’t know how much money they’re going to raise or can raise or how effective they’ll be. But there’s a recall.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>Who is behind this recall effort in Alameda County to get Pamela Price: out of office.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Joe Fitzgerald Rodriguez: \u003c/strong>But I want to temper first by saying until we see where the money is coming from. We won’t have a full picture of all of who is behind this recall effort. But so far, the names that were registered on the documents with the Albany County Elections office are Carl Chan, who is a Oakland Chinatown Chamber of Commerce leader; Phillip Dreyfus, who donated $10,000 to the effort to remove former San Francisco district attorney Chesa Boudin; and Brenda Grisham. She’s the principal officer of the recall effort against Pamela Price, and Grisham is a victims rights advocate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>And I know Brenda is actually someone who’s personally affected by crime in Alameda County. Can you tell me a little bit more about her background?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Joe Fitzgerald Rodriguez: \u003c/strong>Ms. grisham is from East Oakland. Her son, Christopher, was shot and killed in 2010.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Brenda Grisham: \u003c/strong>And this year, it will make 13 years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Joe Fitzgerald Rodriguez: \u003c/strong>And they never caught the person who shot and killed her son. But having lost her son so early, she took that pain and galvanized it into action. And she formed a foundation named after her son, Christopher Lavelle Jones Foundation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Brenda Grisham: \u003c/strong>We just recently celebrated the 12 year anniversary of the foundation because it took me like a year to figure out how I wanted to keep Christopher’s name alive.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Joe Fitzgerald Rodriguez: \u003c/strong>She’s essentially taken that experience and used it to help others who went through what she did.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Brenda Grisham: \u003c/strong>Here in our local area. I’ve helped with getting some policies and procedures to help with the victims of crime, have helped in getting the victims of crime money increased so that families can, you know, really take care of the business after the loss of a loved one.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>What is her main argument for recalling price? Why does she want to be involved in this?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Joe Fitzgerald Rodriguez: \u003c/strong>So they have not made any formal announcements yet. And when I talked to Ms.. Grisham, she said that she would not speak on behalf of the recall during our interview. But what she said personally, she doesn’t believe that folks should see lighter sentences.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Brenda Grisham: \u003c/strong>Oh, sentencing is definitely an issue. Yes. We got to get to a common ground. I don’t see that’s going to happen.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Joe Fitzgerald Rodriguez: \u003c/strong>She thinks that progressive DA’s have made too many arguments about why perpetrators of crime do what they do. Trying to analyze too much, the systems that push them into that crime and saying, you know what? If you decided to do that crime, that’s made the choice, you’re done.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Brenda Grisham: \u003c/strong>The idea of who the victim is is what the problem is. The people that have been traumatized by the actual act are the victims.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Joe Fitzgerald Rodriguez: \u003c/strong>You know, Ms.. Grisham has personal experience with, too. She related to me an experience where she brought some of her fellow members from her foundation who are all victims or survivors of crime, to speak to Pamela Price. And she described a very tense situation where perhaps the price was perhaps not as politic with them as she could have been, in fact, to hear Grisham tell it. D.A. Price was defensive.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Brenda Grisham: \u003c/strong>She never talked to them as they were victims. She never said, I’m sorry for your loss. None of that. She had a condescending tone that I don’t like. When you’re being professional, you don’t talk to people like they are, but they feel.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>And Joey know that there’s usually like this ramp up that happens to a recall campaign that really builds from stories or cases that people end up really pointing to as examples and rationale for recalling someone in office. Right. What are some of the important cases in Alameda County that are really fueling this effort to recall Pamela Price?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Joe Fitzgerald Rodriguez: \u003c/strong>Just to take a step back from this, the opponents of progressive policies have very strong emotional arguments they can make by pointing to these cases where some tragedy happened and there wasn’t a as harsh a sentence as maybe a victim would prefer. And so we’re seeing this argument being made in the case of Jasper Wu, a toddler who was shot and killed in 2021 while in a car with his mother heading home to Fremont from San Francisco. Jasper was sadly caught up in gunshots between adult men who were shooting at one another. There are two men who are defendants in the in the case of the death of young Jasper, Wu, Ivory Bivins and Trevor GREENE were both 24 and 22, respectively. And essentially, Pamela Price has decided not to pursue what we call special circumstances enhancements with those two men.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>Special circumstances are basically an add on charge that a d.a. Can apply that can lead to much harsher punishments for people accused of murder. That could mean life in prison without parole or even the death penalty for the accused. Pamela Price has vowed to stop pursuing special circumstances, citing numbers that show that black defendants are disproportionately more likely to face these charges. But some residents strongly oppose this idea, especially when it comes to high profile crimes where people really want to see justice come down hard, like in the case of Jasper Woo’s death.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Joe Fitzgerald Rodriguez: \u003c/strong>You know, it touches on a few different things in the community, right? Jasper Woo is an Asian child, so it touches on the hearts of those who have been really affected by the anti-Asian hate we’ve seen since the rise of the pandemic. It also touches on this fear of rising crime and this idea of lawlessness. It’s kind of a nexus case of all of these fears that are really coming together.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>But to be clear and just to clarify, these two men are still facing charges, just not these sort of special circumstances enhancement that people, it sounds like, are really want to see.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Joe Fitzgerald Rodriguez: \u003c/strong>Yeah, if convicted, Bivins is facing 265 years to life in prison. Green faces 175 years to life in prison. These men are facing incredibly steep charges for what they did. 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In June, a number of crimes across the city were down. Number of types of crimes, including assaults, were down. The crime rate itself was down in total compared to the same time last year. But as we see happen in summer months, this is a normal occurrence. In July, those numbers tracked up. Crime was up compared to the same time last year. You could have different arguments about why it’s up at the same time last year, higher than last year, but it is up in July. But as we’ve seen, they’ve gone up and down and down and up. And historically, at least compared to decades ago, crime is low. But what we hear and what we hear across the state and the country is this fear of crime. And a lot of it has been stoked by these videos. We see viral videos of crime. And people are afraid.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>Coming up, Pamela Price’s thoughts on the recall and what happens from here. 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We’re updating collaborative courts so that we can have more diversions for people who use drugs and have other low level offenses, aren’t going to jail, but are instead are getting help that they need. There’s mental health courts where she’s hired some of the first mental health clinicians. You know, the mental health courts had attorneys, but no mental health experts. 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So that’s a lot of places to gather signatures. There’s a lot of ground to have to cover. That’s going to cost some money. And so what will determine the viability of this recall effort will be the amount of money that we see it raising in the near future. Another big difference that folks pointed out to me is that the demographics of Alameda County are a lot different. San Francisco has become wealthier. San Francisco has become whiter. San Francisco has a very small black population. And now I’m not going to argue that the black population in Alameda County is monolithic. There are certainly people across the political spectrum there. But because there is a higher black population in Alameda County, there are more folks who have a more direct experience with law enforcement. More progressive folks who have argued and will argue that they want criminal justice reform. And that’s something that might have a stronger pull in Alameda County than we saw on San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>Well, what are you going to be watching, Joe, in the next couple of months?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Joe Fitzgerald Rodriguez: \u003c/strong>I’m going to be watching to see how Pambo prizes arguments evolve around keeping herself in office. I’m definitely interested to see if she continues on the same tack and the same set of arguments the Chaser routine used before he was ousted. I’m curious to see how much money the recall proponents raise and if they’re able to signature gather to the level that they want. I’m interested to see some of the cases that Pamela Price tries and see if they continue to garner the same attention as Jasper Wu’s case. There was just a community meeting just the night before. We’re recording this in the Oakland Hills, where a lot of folks in those wealthier areas were quite angry, detailing car break ins and such. And Pamela Price had to answer to a lot of angry folks who thought that her policies might be making them less safe. And she argued directly to them that she didn’t think that her policies add anything to do with the level of crime, that they should direct their ire to the police.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>Well, Joe, I’m sure I’ll be talking with you about all of this again sometime soon. But thanks so much for breaking this down. I appreciate it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Joe Fitzgerald Rodriguez: \u003c/strong>Absolutely. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Pamela Price: \u003c/strong>When we invest in community support for people with mental illness, when we invest in services and opportunities for young people, when we invest in our community, that’s when we’ll see crime go down.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>Now, less than a year into her term, fears about gun violence, robberies and car break ins are fueling an effort to boot race out of office and prices in a tough spot. Because while the investments she wants to make take time to trickle down into the community, there are people who want something to be done about the crimes happening right now.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Joe Fitzgerald Rodriguez: \u003c/strong>The opponents of progressive policies have very strong emotional arguments they can make by pointing to these cases where, you know, perhaps some tragedy happened and there wasn’t a as harsh a sentence as maybe a victim would prefer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>So, how bad is crime in Alameda County, really? And what does Pamela Price say she’s going to do with it? All that and more on the recall right after this.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Joe Fitzgerald Rodriguez: \u003c/strong>The recall against most delays in the state has been predicated on the idea that crime is rising and that progressive policies are contributing to rising crime.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>Joe Fitzgerald Rodriguez is a politics and government reporter for KQED.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Joe Fitzgerald Rodriguez: \u003c/strong>It’s a bit of a messy argument, though, because crime has risen and dropped in trends that we see happening across the country. Sometimes, as some of our colleagues here actually have shown, the crime rates are actually higher in places with conservative district attorneys. But there is a climate of fear around crime. And so what we’re seeing is the earliest hints of a recall, a recall that has been established as a campaign committee, which means it’s taking the legal steps to establish itself, which means it’s very early. We don’t know how much money they’re going to raise or can raise or how effective they’ll be. But there’s a recall.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>Who is behind this recall effort in Alameda County to get Pamela Price: out of office.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Joe Fitzgerald Rodriguez: \u003c/strong>But I want to temper first by saying until we see where the money is coming from. We won’t have a full picture of all of who is behind this recall effort. But so far, the names that were registered on the documents with the Albany County Elections office are Carl Chan, who is a Oakland Chinatown Chamber of Commerce leader; Phillip Dreyfus, who donated $10,000 to the effort to remove former San Francisco district attorney Chesa Boudin; and Brenda Grisham. She’s the principal officer of the recall effort against Pamela Price, and Grisham is a victims rights advocate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>And I know Brenda is actually someone who’s personally affected by crime in Alameda County. Can you tell me a little bit more about her background?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Joe Fitzgerald Rodriguez: \u003c/strong>Ms. grisham is from East Oakland. Her son, Christopher, was shot and killed in 2010.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Brenda Grisham: \u003c/strong>And this year, it will make 13 years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Joe Fitzgerald Rodriguez: \u003c/strong>And they never caught the person who shot and killed her son. But having lost her son so early, she took that pain and galvanized it into action. And she formed a foundation named after her son, Christopher Lavelle Jones Foundation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Brenda Grisham: \u003c/strong>We just recently celebrated the 12 year anniversary of the foundation because it took me like a year to figure out how I wanted to keep Christopher’s name alive.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Joe Fitzgerald Rodriguez: \u003c/strong>She’s essentially taken that experience and used it to help others who went through what she did.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Brenda Grisham: \u003c/strong>Here in our local area. I’ve helped with getting some policies and procedures to help with the victims of crime, have helped in getting the victims of crime money increased so that families can, you know, really take care of the business after the loss of a loved one.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>What is her main argument for recalling price? Why does she want to be involved in this?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Joe Fitzgerald Rodriguez: \u003c/strong>So they have not made any formal announcements yet. And when I talked to Ms.. Grisham, she said that she would not speak on behalf of the recall during our interview. But what she said personally, she doesn’t believe that folks should see lighter sentences.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Brenda Grisham: \u003c/strong>Oh, sentencing is definitely an issue. Yes. We got to get to a common ground. I don’t see that’s going to happen.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Joe Fitzgerald Rodriguez: \u003c/strong>She thinks that progressive DA’s have made too many arguments about why perpetrators of crime do what they do. Trying to analyze too much, the systems that push them into that crime and saying, you know what? If you decided to do that crime, that’s made the choice, you’re done.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Brenda Grisham: \u003c/strong>The idea of who the victim is is what the problem is. The people that have been traumatized by the actual act are the victims.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Joe Fitzgerald Rodriguez: \u003c/strong>You know, Ms.. Grisham has personal experience with, too. She related to me an experience where she brought some of her fellow members from her foundation who are all victims or survivors of crime, to speak to Pamela Price. And she described a very tense situation where perhaps the price was perhaps not as politic with them as she could have been, in fact, to hear Grisham tell it. D.A. Price was defensive.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Brenda Grisham: \u003c/strong>She never talked to them as they were victims. She never said, I’m sorry for your loss. None of that. She had a condescending tone that I don’t like. When you’re being professional, you don’t talk to people like they are, but they feel.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>And Joey know that there’s usually like this ramp up that happens to a recall campaign that really builds from stories or cases that people end up really pointing to as examples and rationale for recalling someone in office. Right. What are some of the important cases in Alameda County that are really fueling this effort to recall Pamela Price?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Joe Fitzgerald Rodriguez: \u003c/strong>Just to take a step back from this, the opponents of progressive policies have very strong emotional arguments they can make by pointing to these cases where some tragedy happened and there wasn’t a as harsh a sentence as maybe a victim would prefer. And so we’re seeing this argument being made in the case of Jasper Wu, a toddler who was shot and killed in 2021 while in a car with his mother heading home to Fremont from San Francisco. Jasper was sadly caught up in gunshots between adult men who were shooting at one another. There are two men who are defendants in the in the case of the death of young Jasper, Wu, Ivory Bivins and Trevor GREENE were both 24 and 22, respectively. And essentially, Pamela Price has decided not to pursue what we call special circumstances enhancements with those two men.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>Special circumstances are basically an add on charge that a d.a. Can apply that can lead to much harsher punishments for people accused of murder. That could mean life in prison without parole or even the death penalty for the accused. Pamela Price has vowed to stop pursuing special circumstances, citing numbers that show that black defendants are disproportionately more likely to face these charges. But some residents strongly oppose this idea, especially when it comes to high profile crimes where people really want to see justice come down hard, like in the case of Jasper Woo’s death.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Joe Fitzgerald Rodriguez: \u003c/strong>You know, it touches on a few different things in the community, right? Jasper Woo is an Asian child, so it touches on the hearts of those who have been really affected by the anti-Asian hate we’ve seen since the rise of the pandemic. It also touches on this fear of rising crime and this idea of lawlessness. It’s kind of a nexus case of all of these fears that are really coming together.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>But to be clear and just to clarify, these two men are still facing charges, just not these sort of special circumstances enhancement that people, it sounds like, are really want to see.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Joe Fitzgerald Rodriguez: \u003c/strong>Yeah, if convicted, Bivins is facing 265 years to life in prison. Green faces 175 years to life in prison. These men are facing incredibly steep charges for what they did. The only difference here is there is some possibility of parole.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>Well, I want to talk, Joe, more about this feeling that crime is up and these fears around crime, because it does sound like the tension here is between, you know, these progressive policies that maybe take a longer to really see the fruits of, whereas, you know, there’s this feeling that people want something to be done about crime right now. And they know that especially in Oakland, there’s really this feeling of rise in crime is particularly relevant. What does the data actually show, though?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Joe Fitzgerald Rodriguez: \u003c/strong>Alameda County has more than a dozen cities in it. Oakland is not the only one, but perhaps the city that will become the crux of most discussions will be Oakland. Oakland’s crime numbers have fluctuated. In June, a number of crimes across the city were down. Number of types of crimes, including assaults, were down. The crime rate itself was down in total compared to the same time last year. But as we see happen in summer months, this is a normal occurrence. In July, those numbers tracked up. Crime was up compared to the same time last year. You could have different arguments about why it’s up at the same time last year, higher than last year, but it is up in July. But as we’ve seen, they’ve gone up and down and down and up. And historically, at least compared to decades ago, crime is low. But what we hear and what we hear across the state and the country is this fear of crime. And a lot of it has been stoked by these videos. We see viral videos of crime. And people are afraid.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>Coming up, Pamela Price’s thoughts on the recall and what happens from here. How has Pamela Price responded to this effort to recall her, Joe?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Joe Fitzgerald Rodriguez: \u003c/strong>Pamela Price had some real harsh words for those who are behind this effort.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Pamela Price: \u003c/strong>These are election deniers. They lost the election. So they want to have a do over.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Joe Fitzgerald Rodriguez: \u003c/strong>Subverting democracy that they’re comparable to the people in the January six insurrection, that they’re Republicans, that they’re out-of-towners. And she was she didn’t hold back.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Pamela Price: \u003c/strong>Their candidate lost. And so they want to have a second bite at the apple. And that’s not that’s undemocratic. That’s not how democracy works. People get to vote and your vote matters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Joe Fitzgerald Rodriguez: \u003c/strong>The opponents of a power price say that crime is worse and people are afraid. And that’s bad. While prices fault for her progressive policies. And Pamela Price will argue a D.A. is one actor among many in the criminal justice system, including the police offenders, the role of education, the county and economic health and all of those have a place in the crime rate. And the D.A. does not really have a strong influence on crime.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Pamela Price: \u003c/strong>A D.A. has no effect whatsoever on crime rates. That is a failed measure. And it’s been proven over and over across the country. That’s not how you measure the performance of your district attorney. When we invest in community support for people with mental illness, when we invest in services and opportunities for young people, when we invest in our community, that’s when we’ll see crime go down.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Joe Fitzgerald Rodriguez: \u003c/strong>I will say I have spoken to some academics about this. They also argue that really what you need is a preponderance of data about recidivism and diversion rates. The progressives have the tough argument here because their argument is one that is measured in time, whereas people who have a more kind of law and order view are measuring it by individual trauma and individual pain, which is much easier to show.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>So if Pamela Price thinks crime rates are a bad way of measuring the success of a day, how does she measure success? Like what accomplishments does she really point to?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Joe Fitzgerald Rodriguez: \u003c/strong>I think what she really points to is, is how she is trying to wrap around services.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Pamela Price: \u003c/strong>We have established a civil rights bureau. We’ve created a community support bureau. We have worked on the victim witness advocates making sure that we’re expanding those services, as well as expanding the outreach of the collaborative course, the mental health courts, and dealing with mental health diversion.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Joe Fitzgerald Rodriguez: \u003c/strong>She tells me we helping getting multilingual support for victims of crime. We’re updating collaborative courts so that we can have more diversions for people who use drugs and have other low level offenses, aren’t going to jail, but are instead are getting help that they need. There’s mental health courts where she’s hired some of the first mental health clinicians. You know, the mental health courts had attorneys, but no mental health experts. So she hired the.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Pamela Price: \u003c/strong>Obviously our Public Accountability Unit, which is part of the Civil Rights Bureau, initially looked at eight cases of police misconduct and we’re holding police accountable.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Joe Fitzgerald Rodriguez: \u003c/strong>But one of the other major tenets of helping to stem the cycle of crime from her point of view, is to reduce sentencing with the hope that reducing sentencing can help communities heal, can help individuals get out of the cycle of crime.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Pamela Price: \u003c/strong>And the mandate is the same. We cannot continue to over incarcerate and over criminalize black and brown people in this community.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Joe Fitzgerald Rodriguez: \u003c/strong>She’s only been in office six months before this recall campaign started. And I think she’s going to try to argue that, hey, give me time to to do what you elected me to do. I said all this on the campaign trail. I said I was going to lessen the sentences. I said I was going to do special circumstances. I said I was going to charge minors as minors and not as adults. These are the reasons that you voted for me. She will say.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Pamela Price: \u003c/strong>Alameda County is a very special place that I’ve been embraced by for 40 years, and I was elected to do the job and I’m going to continue to do the job that I was elected to do.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>We’re still early on, it sounds like. But I mean, you’ve already been talking about this sort of comparison that a lot of people are making between what happened in San Francisco and the recall of former district attorney Jason Boudin. But is that a fair comparison here?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Joe Fitzgerald Rodriguez: \u003c/strong>I think the lessons that we can take from Chase’s recall are select ones. But you have to remember the recall. Chase Aberdeen was in San Francisco, which is both one city and one county in Alameda County. There’s more than a dozen cities. So that’s a lot of places to gather signatures. There’s a lot of ground to have to cover. That’s going to cost some money. And so what will determine the viability of this recall effort will be the amount of money that we see it raising in the near future. Another big difference that folks pointed out to me is that the demographics of Alameda County are a lot different. San Francisco has become wealthier. San Francisco has become whiter. San Francisco has a very small black population. And now I’m not going to argue that the black population in Alameda County is monolithic. There are certainly people across the political spectrum there. But because there is a higher black population in Alameda County, there are more folks who have a more direct experience with law enforcement. More progressive folks who have argued and will argue that they want criminal justice reform. And that’s something that might have a stronger pull in Alameda County than we saw on San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>Well, what are you going to be watching, Joe, in the next couple of months?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Joe Fitzgerald Rodriguez: \u003c/strong>I’m going to be watching to see how Pambo prizes arguments evolve around keeping herself in office. I’m definitely interested to see if she continues on the same tack and the same set of arguments the Chaser routine used before he was ousted. I’m curious to see how much money the recall proponents raise and if they’re able to signature gather to the level that they want. I’m interested to see some of the cases that Pamela Price tries and see if they continue to garner the same attention as Jasper Wu’s case. There was just a community meeting just the night before. We’re recording this in the Oakland Hills, where a lot of folks in those wealthier areas were quite angry, detailing car break ins and such. And Pamela Price had to answer to a lot of angry folks who thought that her policies might be making them less safe. And she argued directly to them that she didn’t think that her policies add anything to do with the level of crime, that they should direct their ire to the police.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>Well, Joe, I’m sure I’ll be talking with you about all of this again sometime soon. But thanks so much for breaking this down. I appreciate it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Joe Fitzgerald Rodriguez: \u003c/strong>Absolutely. Thank you for having me.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>Now that the necessary papers have been filed, the campaign will have to gather more than 93,000 signatures to get this question of whether to recall Pamela Price on the ballot. And it’s going to take a lot of cash to get that task done. Upwards of $1,000,000, according to one estimate. That was Joe Fitzgerald Rodriguez, a politics and government reporter for KQED. This 40-minute conversation with Joe was cut down and edited by producer Maria Esquinca. Alan Montecillo is our senior editor. He scored this episode and added all the tape. And I am Ericka Cruz Guevara. Welcome back to The Bay. It’s so good to be back in your feed. Hope you can wrap us back into your daily routine here. And we appreciate you for listening and for rocking with us and for sticking around. We’ll talk to you next time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>San Francisco city leaders say the prevailing perception that crime is running rampant — a key argument behind an effort to remove District Attorney Chesa Boudin from office — doesn't quite square with the statistics. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Robbery, rape and larceny theft are down, according to the San Francisco Police Department's \u003ca href=\"https://s3.documentcloud.org/documents/20988259/2021-june-compstat.pdf\">mid-year report\u003c/a> on public safety statistics. Thefts, including those at retail stores, are down by 9% compared to this time last year, according to the report.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Not every crime is reported, but we can only go by what we know: It's been a steady decrease,\" said SFPD Police Chief Bill Scott. \"The statistics are counter to the narrative.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Scott, who presented the data with Mayor London Breed at a press conference Monday, said viral videos and news coverage of crime in San Francisco are contributing to a false perception of lawlessness.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We know that numbers don't matter when you're a victim of a crime, any crime, in any capacity,\" said Breed. \"But at the end of the day, we have to use this data to make a decision about our policies and our investments.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While most violent crime is down, gun violence and burglaries are up. So are crimes such as homicides, aggravated assault, car break-ins and auto thefts — though not as high as in recent years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Francisco has reported 26 homicides so far this year, for example, compared to 22 by this time in 2020. Despite the increase over last year, the mid-year number is significantly lower than the 34 reported homicides by mid-2017.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"These things, they get in our head,\" Scott said, referring to videos capturing violent crime and circulating on social media. \"And people start to believe that that is our city. But that is not our city.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label='Related Coverage' tag='sfpd']Fears of rising crime have also driven calls to remove San Francisco \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11786689/chesa-boudin-not-your-average-district-attorney\">District Attorney Chesa Boudin\u003c/a> from office. Those behind the effort to remove him from his position have said Boudin's \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfexaminer.com/news/data-shows-chesa-boudin-prosecutes-fewer-shoplifters-than-predecessor/\">progressive approach\u003c/a> to the office gives criminals the green light to commit crimes in the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Look at the facts,\" Boudin said about those calling for his removal. \"The numbers are something that my office, the Police Department and all of San Francisco should be proud of.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>John Hamasaki, a public defender and San Francisco police commissioner who supports Boudin, said the anxiety around the pandemic and heightened calls for police accountability after the murder of George Floyd by a Minneapolis police officer created a \"perfect storm\" of fear exploited by right-wing media and conservatives.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Unfortunately, I think the press conference today was probably a necessary way of pushing back on that and saying, well, that's terrible that people feel that way,\" Hamasaki said. \"But let's take a moment, let's step back, and let's look at the facts. Let's look at what we know, and then coming up with strategies for the crime that does exist.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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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. 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>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>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>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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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>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>Chanting “say his name” and holding signs that read “abolish the police,” hundreds of demonstrators converged in front of San Francisco’s Mission High School on Thursday evening, demanding a fundamental overhaul of policing in America.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Organized by the activist group Defund SFPD Now, the rally is part of a renewed national focus on police violence, sparked by several recent high-profile police shootings of Black men, and amid the \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/sections/trial-over-killing-of-george-floyd/2021/04/15/987599305/watch-live-chauvin-defense-testimony-continues-in-murder-trial\">ongoing high-stakes trial of Derek Chauvin\u003c/a>, the former Minneapolis police officer charged with killing George Floyd last spring.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Police will never be held accountable because the system doesn’t want them to be,” said Aditi Joshi of Defund SFPD Now at the demonstration Thursday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11869757\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1394px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11869757 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/Image-from-iOS-20.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1394\" height=\"929\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/Image-from-iOS-20.jpg 1394w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/Image-from-iOS-20-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/Image-from-iOS-20-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/Image-from-iOS-20-160x107.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1394px) 100vw, 1394px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A memorial in honor of Roger Allen and people killed by the police fills the steps of Mission High School on April 15, 2021. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Outside of Mission High School, demonstrators spoke, chanted and placed flowers on a memorial for 20-year-old Daunte Wright, who was \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2021/04/15/987795222/officer-who-killed-daunte-wright-makes-first-court-appearance-in-manslaughter-ca\">shot and killed by a police officer\u003c/a> in the Minneapolis suburb of Brooklyn Center, and Roger Allen, a 44-year-old San Francisco resident who was \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfexaminer.com/news/supporters-march-for-sf-man-killed-by-daly-city-police/\">shot and killed by a Daly City police officer\u003c/a> on April 7 after a reported struggle over a fake gun.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/SFNewsReporter/status/1382873323739045890?s=20\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The group then marched to the San Francisco Police Department’s Mission Station on Valencia Street. While gesturing at police officers outside the building, Talika Fletcher, who said she’s Allen’s sister, said “they didn’t do it, but Daly City did.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They should not be allowed to carry any guns. If we can’t have none, why should they have some?” Fletcher said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11869760\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1620px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11869760 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/Image-from-iOS-23.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1620\" height=\"1080\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/Image-from-iOS-23.jpg 1620w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/Image-from-iOS-23-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/Image-from-iOS-23-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/Image-from-iOS-23-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/Image-from-iOS-23-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1620px) 100vw, 1620px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Talika Fletcher, who said she’s Roger Allen’s sister, takes a moment during speaking outside of the Mission Police Station on April 15, 2021, during a rally in her brother’s honor and those killed by the police. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Wright was killed during what began as a routine traffic stop for expired vehicle tags, just miles from the courthouse where Chauvin is being tried. The officer involved, a 26-year veteran of the department, claims she mistook her handgun for a Taser, firing it at Wright after he resisted arrest for an outstanding warrant. She is being charged with second-degree manslaughter and faces a maximum of 10 years in prison, which Wright’s family has decried as far too lenient.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At least 135 unarmed Black men and women have been shot and killed by police in the last five years, according to \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2021/01/25/956177021/fatal-police-shootings-of-unarmed-black-people-reveal-troubling-patterns\">an NPR investigation\u003c/a> in January.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What happened to Daunte Wright and Roger Allen proves that the criminal legal system can never bring us justice,” Joshi, of Defund SFPD Now, said in a statement prior to Thursday’s rally. “They will always kill because the system of policing is NOT broken. It is functioning as intended. The time for waiting is long over. We must defund, disband, and abolish the police.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/SFNewsReporter/status/1382873323739045890?s=20\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Just hours before the start of Thursday’s rally, yet another fatal police incident drew national attention after officials in Chicago released body camera footage of a police officer shooting a \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2021/04/15/987718420/chicago-releases-video-showing-fatal-police-shooting-of-13-year-old-adam-toledo\">13-year-old boy named Adam Toledo\u003c/a> during a foot chase in that city several weeks ago.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Over the summer, protests erupted across the region, the country and much of the world, in response to the death of George Floyd, a 46-year-old Black man. A visceral video of his death in late May shows Floyd — who was arrested on suspicion of using a counterfeit $20 bill — handcuffed and pinned to the ground as Chauvin kneels on his neck for more than nine minutes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The incident and its aftermath launched what some consider a racial reckoning in the U.S., galvanizing scores of companies and institutions to reexamine their positions on racial equity and justice, and prompting multiple state legislatures — including in California — to adopt modest policing reforms. It also spurred activists in cities across the country to demand major local policing reforms — including \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11823958/defund-the-police-what-it-means-and-how-bay-area-cities-are-responding\">a push to defund\u003c/a> or flat-out abolish police departments, and reallocate much of those budgets to social service and educational agencies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Multiple cities across the Bay Area, including San Francisco and Oakland, have since proposed or adopted plans to cut their police budgets by large chunks and reinvest those funds in community service agencies that advocates say are far better equipped to handle many of the non-violent incidents that often escalate when police are called in.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11869761\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1209px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11869761\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/Image-from-iOS-25.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1209\" height=\"806\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/Image-from-iOS-25.jpg 1209w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/Image-from-iOS-25-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/Image-from-iOS-25-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/Image-from-iOS-25-160x107.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1209px) 100vw, 1209px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Alexis Rodriguez, a sophomore at Summit Shasta High School in Daly City, holds a sign that says ‘A badge is not a license to kill’ during a vigil and rally outside of Mission High School in San Francisco on April 15, 2021. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In September, San Francisco supervisors \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11862094/sf-mayor-breed-unveils-plan-for-reinvesting-120-million-from-police-into-black-communities\">approved Mayor London Breed’s proposal\u003c/a>, as part of this year’s budget, to strip $120 million from the city’s law enforcement agencies over two years and redirect those funds to support the city’s largely underserved Black community. Breed — who has for years supported increasing SFPD’s budget — also last summer directed the police department to no longer\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11824152/san-francisco-police-wont-respond-to-non-criminal-calls\"> respond to non-criminal complaints\u003c/a>, revise its accountability and anti-bias practices, and stop using military-grade equipment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, some activists have said that while these actions mark progress, they don’t go far enough, and that only a complete overhaul of law enforcement systems can make any real dent in reversing the ongoing epidemic of police violence against communities of color.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This post has been updated.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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The allocations reflect spending priorities conveyed by Black residents during a series of community meetings and public surveys led last year by the city’s Human Rights Commission, Breed said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It was important that we took the conversation to the community and we got feedback on what was most important,\" Breed said on \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/forum/2010101882236/2010101882236\">KQED's Forum\u003c/a> Thursday. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I want to change the outcome of African Americans in the city who are disproportionately impacted in the criminal justice system, disproportionately impacted by homelessness and a number of other disparities, even in our public school system. And I wanted to make sure that these investments were going to make a difference.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Of the \u003ca href=\"https://sfmayor.org/article/mayor-london-breed-announces-spending-plan-historic-reinvestment-san-franciscos-african\">$60 million slated to be spent this fiscal year\u003c/a>, through September, nearly $14 million will go toward workforce training and development programs, including small business support and efforts to increase Black employment in city agencies. Another roughly $15 million will be used to support community health and wellness initiatives, and about $10 million will go toward housing security, including a push to increase Black homeownership.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Shamann Walton, SF Board of Supervisors president\"]'We have to ... prioritize communities that have never had a chance to build true wealth and this is a first step towards true reparations for the Black community here in San Francisco.'[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Among the other large expenditures: roughly $7 million to fund a guaranteed income program, $6.6 million for community outreach and social work initiatives and nearly $6 million for youth development and arts and culture programs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Specific details on most of the new programs set to be be launched under the initiative are still in the works, said Sarah Owens, a spokeswoman for the mayor's office. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It's a complex process with a lot of moving pieces. 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Black residents have among the city’s highest mortality rates and lowest median household incomes, and are involved in a disproportionately high percentage of police use-of-force incidents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I grew up in poverty. I've had to live in poverty over 20 years of my life. And the frustration that came from living like that and then seeing so many of my friends who had been killed or in jail or on drugs — that is my motivation,\" Breed said. \"Because just imagine if we can change the outcome of African Americans in San Francisco. 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Breed has billed the city's transfer of funds from law enforcement agencies as a necessary reparation for city policies that she says led to “decades of disinvestment” in Black communities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This initial investment to improve outcomes for the Black community and overturn years of disinvestment and inequitable resource distribution is just the first step in righting the wrongs of history,” Walton said in \u003ca href=\"https://sfmayor.org/article/mayor-london-breed-announces-spending-plan-historic-reinvestment-san-franciscos-african\">a statement\u003c/a>. “We now have to continue to prioritize communities that have never had a chance to build true wealth and this is a first step towards true reparations for the Black community here in San Francisco.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Funding for the initiative comes from roughly $80 million in cuts, over two years, from the San Francisco Police Department, reducing its nearly\u003ca href=\"https://sfmayor.org/sites/default/files/CSF_Budget_Book_June_2019_Final_Web_REV2.pdf\"> $700 million annual budget\u003c/a> by almost 6%. 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Expulsions dropped 53% over that same period.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The data show a modest decrease in the percentage of all suspensions and expulsions of Black students, from 36.2% to 33.0%. Black students make up about 11 % of district students.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In voting to lay off all 67 employees of the Oakland School Police Department, including its 10 sworn officers, the board agreed it could funnel those savings towards student support services like counselors and academic mentors. 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