Danny Wan: The Conspiracy of the Unspoken Truths in Oakland
It was sad to see Oakland reach a new low on Tuesday. The police chief resigns, but attempts to bring down the entire Council with him. At the same time, he takes...
Don Link: The escalating mess at OPD
Don Link originally posted this essay on the OPD listserv. I don’t think the audiences for this blog and the listservs overlap all that much, so I thought...
Defending the indefensible
Did you guys catch former Alameda County Sheriff Charles Plummer’s eyebrow raising MyWord in Friday’s Trib? Yikes!
2007 City Crime Rankings Released
And Oakland moves down a slot, to number five on the list! Doubtlessly, this news will result in the same litany of excuses from the Mayor and Police Chief that...
Banner summer for Oakland
So, to recap. The general political climate in Oakland at the beginning of the summer was best summed up by the Trib in their Council race endorsements, which they...
When your best isn’t good enough, it’s time to go
So I’ve had like a dozen people ask me this week why I haven’t written anything yet about the latest plan for ending Oakland’s spate of restaurant...
How much of our crime crisis has to do with ineffective leadership at OPD?
So in Citywise today, we learn that Robert Bobb announced at an event yesterday that the budget deficit is going to be between 40 and 60 million. Ouch. Bobb is right...
The City Council cannot be trusted.
So the Council last night approved the Mayor’s funding request for $7.7 million in Measure Y money to pay for a new police recruitment package. It’s...
Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me.
Back in April 2006, Oakland’s City Council and then-Mayor Jerry Brown were feeling increasing heat from angry citizens about our understaffed police department....
Oakland benefits from the misfortunes of other cities! Or not.
You may have read in the Trib on Friday that Oakland’s chances of fully staffing the police department this year are pretty good, because we have less competition...
Questioning Dellums’s promise
I wrote yesterday for Novometro about the feasibility of Ron Dellums’s promise to fully staff the police department by the end of 2008. CBS 5 had a report...
When will Oakland have 803 police officers? At this rate, never.
So compared to many of the other items at Tuesday’s Council meeting, the unenforceable smoking ban was actually pretty unimportant (but kind of funny). They...

