Max- I don’t think these people should receive full pension payouts if they are basically being fired. Same with AIG. People say “honor the contracts.”

Well, AIG people made illegal contracts with Goldman Sachs and banks which they had no capital and therefore no intent to ever honor. This is called fraud.

Edgerly, a city employee has been shown to be guilty of at least one crime (why wasn’t edgerly ever convicted for interfering with the police and obstructing justice?) – and Tucker failed in his duties to reduce crime and increase Oakland’s quality of life. Epic fail on both counts.

of course, there are many reasons out of a police chief’s control and perhaps pensions shouldn’t be linked to performance here.

but when he is shown to have purposefully destroyed dept morale and reduced crime-fighting and has nothing to show for it… and not listened to feedback – that is breakign the spirit of his employment contract. does anyone have a copy of his hiring papers?

Ken

And JB? No, that would not be Jane Brunner. Not even close.

Bad performance = low payout.

Just as it should be with AIG’s $100 billion of bailout money redirected to foreign banks and Goldman Sachs, not to mention a few puny executive bonuses.

If the ‘Town could hire another 500 cops, I would bet a lot of money you’d see crime drop to Newarkian levels real quick. Think about how dense the cops would be between 66th and 109th avenues. You could post 10 cops per avenue, for Pete’s sake, and still have nearly 100 left over for the (geographically smaller) West Oakland streets.

This is just yet another example of how City leaders spend hours, days, weeks, months and years talking about topics and putting together “plans” and then don’t follow up to make sure the plan is being implemented. In addition, they never try to to find out whether it is working. They are allowed to get away with this because most people stop paying attention after the crisis has been averted with a “plan.” Only with scrutiny from the press and lawsuits do they ever wake up, and then, only just barely.

Under Jerry Brown, OPD was nearly gutted. The lowest numbers of sworn personnel in recent memory occurred under the Brown administration.

Beat Health, one of the few functioning units, was shut down. The gang unit was disbanded. The traffic division shrunk. As was noted, the jail was closed.

The implementation of Community Policing, has been thwarted at every opportunity. If budget cuts were needed, they were taken out of Community Policing.

There are finally enough PSOs but it still isn’t clear how much time they spend responding to calls for service instead of solving problems in their assigned beats. And the unconsionable rotation of PSOs (without their consent or request) prevents real relationships from developing between the PSOs and the community.

Last year, the Community Polcing Advisory Board CPAB was shut down after a failure by city staff and elected officials to enforce the requirements for terms of service. The decision to shut down the Board came once a majority of the Board was not legally serving and the Board had no quorum and could not meet legally. It was just coincidence that this happened at the same time the new geographic policing program was introduced and the $7M was taken from Measure Y for recruitment. The police advisory board was unable to weigh in on any of it. Did I mention how much the police brass hate the CPAB?

The failures of leadership with the police department started with Jerry Brown and have continued under Dellums.